taken on my olympus at 60 seconds. The star trails are interesting combined with boat lifts they went speeding past on the water, and I think one plane on the horizon. The Tripp’s was on a garbage can and may have shaken a little.

Nikon for probably its max shutter of 30 seconds, looking at the Redondo pier

I got bored on this past Saturday night so around midnight I grabbed my mirrorless camera (olympus em10 Mark ii) as well as Mia’s DSLR (Nikon d3300) and my little tripod, I hopped on my bike and just went out In search of photos to test the differences.

Olympus. Towards the harbor and manhattan beach from Redondo avenues.

Nikon. Trying to get the different lights shown in the sand.

Nikon on the bike seat and of my olympus on the trash can. The stairs and tower were taken with the olympus.

It was fun, I felt like I was in some stealth mission and my experience so far with these two cameras is that the Nikon feels better to carry, the grip is Bigger and feels sturdier, but at a cost of being large and taking up more space than my olympus. The olympus has more user friendly shooting modes and longer open shutter speed to gather more light, which is necessary because it is a smaller, weaker sensor size. The Nikon I think has stronger colors but can only stay open for 30 seconds which means it can’t gather as great of information in the sky, then again it’s a much larger camera sensor and stores larger files so the image is more clear if magnified. Theres also something satisfying about the cler-chunk sound of a SLR mirror flapping up and down that is missing from the shutter sound on the mirrorless camera. Luckily I can still take one or both around whether than have to choose. There’s Obviously a lot i need to learn but it’s fun to realize that picture taking doesn’t have to stop when it gets dark out, just have to be creative with the surroundings.

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Excuses to take pictures / night