depscribe's photos with the keyword: Catholicism

A quiet moment after Mass. The second picture I took with the new Fuji X30. Very nice little camera, though there are a couple of firmware changes I'd make: a menu item to turn off the focus-assist light (you can do it, but it turns off a lot of other things, too), and an ability to look at the just-taken picture through the EVF for as long as you want immediately after taking it, with it canceled by a half-press of the shutter release, which is easily done with even the original X100. But these are quibbles. Less a quibble is the fact that the ring where a focusing ring normally goes cannot be assigned to be a focusing ring, for some insane reason.

From the stripped altar to the absence of the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the shrouded rows of candles to the empty tabernacle, to the shrouded crucifix, to the prostration, one of the most solemn moments in the Christian year. St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, Athens, Ohio.

Father Mark Moore prepares for communion at Christ the King in Athens, Ohio. A bit of technical information for such as are interested. These two pictures were made to test the X20 for its suitability in photographing the Easter Triduum in the coming days. It is, I think, marginally superior to the X10 in some respects, but it still may not be as good as the LX-5 with the little clip-on electronic viewfinder in this kind of photography. But I'm not sure that any camera surpasses the LX-5 in this kind of situation. This was shot in program mode with auto white balance, as was the other one. A bit more technical information: while I found that the X20 could be made to work in this situation, it was far more troublesome in operation tan the X10, so it has gone back. I returned to using the X10, which is operationaly better and which has image uality at least as good.