Adventures in the South Island with a Panasonic GM1

[Tom Caldwell]

Happy Wanaka locals on a night out

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/40 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 3200

Wanaka is a very scenic place

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 1/200 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

Wanaka from Iron Mountain - worth the walk

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 1/320 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 125

Plurry cold in the South Island at Easter - Oz was warmer

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/160 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

Little Miss Jaunty on Iron Mountain on a warmer day

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 1/1600 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

From the pass down there lieth Queenstown and that little straight line is the airport m'fella

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 60.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/800 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

The Ditch, on a good day

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 1/800 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

Happy ... he worked out that it was not spinning

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 12.0 mm
• ƒ/2
• 1/80 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

Milford Sound - it was much wetter than it looked

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 12.0 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/320 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

If the image is soft it is because by this stage the camera might as well have been dropped in a bucket of water. At least the flag is not too bad. The same camera and lens dried out is still working nine years later.

• Panasonic - DMC-GM1
• 13.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/500 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

 

[AlbertM43user]

I guess you must have a very enjoyable journey.

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

I came back with nearly 4,000 images - sharing can get overpowering. Nice to now that my very first GM1 is still going strong after its travels.

 

[PentUp]

Great images Tom

 

[Tom Caldwell]

My son and I had to decide who was going to drive and he drew the short straw and I captured the travelogue.

 

[nzmacro]

Ahhh yes, a slice of home. Worked in Queenstown and Wanaka for quite awhile. Funny walking around in a tee shirt when it's -6 degrees. Beautiful places they are and well done Tom.

Danny.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

The last image was very soft as the camera was drenched, soaking wet and water streaming off the lens - it is a tribute to the GM1 and the kit lens that was the only one I had the guts to use in such wet conditions. But I carefully dried both on the way back to Te Anau and left them in indirect heat overnight - seems ot have worked.

 

[Numnuts]

The last image was very soft as the camera was drenched, soaking wet and water streaming off the lens - it is a tribute to the GM1 and the kit lens that was the only one I had the guts to use in such wet conditions. But I carefully dried both on the way back to Te Anau and left them in indirect heat overnight - seems ot have worked.

Nice work tom, a lot of memories in your images for me as i was born in a place called Gore, not far from wanaka and queenstown.

Will get back there in the next few years i hope.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

I have a couple of pictures of Gore! I had a great meal of "bangers and mush" there ....

I was hoping to hear a tiny hint of a Scots accent left over but all I heard was pure Kiwi ....

 

[Tom Caldwell]

The very soft flag image was not because of a classic soft focus lens or even out of focus but rather the lens has so much water on it that soft focus look was the best it could do. I had been using a tissue to wipe the water off the lens but by this stage it had well and truly fallen apart so my 'classic' NZ maritime flag with waterfall background was a failure - but the essence of what I meant was still there.

A bit like Capa's D-Cay landing images - the best that could be achieved on the day. The best images were on the top deck outside in the wet but only I and a couple of others braved the inundation. I sought what shelter I could find but hardly under-cover. Other images were taken with tissue-wiping help or before the wet really ramped up.