New Year's Eve

Edit Flickr apparently no longer works with LJ.  Guess it's time to move somewhere else.  If I can get this fixed, I will, but this may well be the last straw.

Edit 2 Fixed it, but yeah, I think I may be done with LJ and Flickr for this sort of thing. Time to explore other options.

On New Year's Eve, I went to, what is now, my usual party. As in previous years, I took photos. Unlike in previous years, I had a different camera. The Nikon 1 AW1 is waterproof^*, freezeproof^** and shockproof^*** and just what you want to get if you plan to photograph sea otters and don't want to risk dropping your real camera in the ocean. Since there is a decent chance that I may be taking photos of sea otters (and possibly singing to them), I thought it would be wise to experiment with it beforehand. It's a good house to practice in because the room is ideally suited the music at the same time that the light is actively hostile to photographers. So it's target-rich but highly challenging environment.

^* For certain depths of water
^** For certain values of cold
^*** For shockingly low values of shock

The short review is that it works, low light performance is better than I thought but not as much as I'd hoped and I utterly loathe the autofocus system. Still, I think it will work well for its intended purpose. I just hope it's nicely sunny on the day I use it. The water-proof lens is sub-optimal. However, you're probably more interested in the actual photos. The full set is here. Here is my favourite:


Midnight is *so* far away.

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