Eriyadu Island Resort In Maldives

This lovely and straightforward resort, situated in North Male Atoll, is found on an island of mesmerizing tropical beauty. a gorgeous lagoon encapsulates the resort, and it's nestled close to the reef. thanks to its central location thirty five of the simplest dive sites of the North moreover because the South Male atoll are terribly shut, providing a major location for divers. The resort has an on-site dining venue, low look, disco, and massage facility. Guestrooms are well appointed with fashionable conveniences and a stylish islander ornamental theme that promotes a peaceful atmosphere. The Eriyadu Island Resort is ideal for travelers that desire a picturesque dive location.

Diving within the Maldives is rated among the simplest within the world. Eriyadu house-reef is one among the foremost beautiful within the Maldives with heat waters and sumptuous visibility, making certain extraordinary colours near hand. we've got an on-site dive center staffed by certified instructors catering to each level of expertise providing a spread of dive courses. you'll rent an equipment, enroll on diving courses, visit the house reef or participate in night dives. Boat dives visit over forty totally different dive sites within the space. Our safari dives explore even any a field.

Beach Front Villas

The Sixty Beach Front Villas are simply a couple of meters off from the pristine water, merely styled amongst the shaded dancing fronds of the palm trees surrounding the island. it's furnished with 2 double beds, tv (Satellite TV channels),coffee/ tea services, mini-bar, electronic safe, air-con, ceiling fan, Hot and cold water (fresh desalinated), hair dryer, IDD phonephone facilities, pipe-in music, open air bogs providing tropical out of doors shower and tub, personal veranda, sun beds, cushions and beach towels.

Facilities

Air-Conditioning, Satellite TV, Safe, Mini Bar, Coffee/Tea creating Facilities, IDD line phonephone, Hair Dryer, Umbrella, Sitting space, Hot/Cold Shower, Bathtub, Sun Chairs, Bathrobes and slippers

Entertainment:

You may prefer to relax on the beach or get pleasure from the activities on top of or below the surface. once long every day enjoying the sun, sand & sea, all you wish is to cool down down at our bar at the sting of the water. Our bar hosts live music performance & discos with light-weight meals, exotic cocktails, fine wine & spirits.

Diving

Eriyadu features a nice house reef that's terribly simply accessed creating it excellent for snorkelling and diving. Eriyadu has a superb Dive Center managed and run by Euro-Divers, and that they provide a full vary of PADI and CMAS courses, together with speciality courses. they need full equipment obtainable to rent, together with computers and cameras. Eriyadu has some excellent dive sites nearby, together with Finger purpose. this can be a famous shark dive within the Maldives where up to fifty gray Reef Sharks are seen on one dive. coaching is completed within the sheltered lagoon and also the house reef is dived twenty four hours every day. The dive centre runs a tank shuttle service to drop off and collect tanks for guest wishing to create freelance dives and night dives is created each night and at any time

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Leica M9 vs Fuji X Pro-1...Result!

JPEG #A FUJI X PRO-1

 JPEG # B LEICA M9

Well, the results of the poll are correct!

The results are (at the time of writing this post) 139 voted for image A to have been made with the Fuji X Pro-1, while 114 voted for it to have been made with the Leica M9.

I think the point of the poll's question is to demonstrate that, to me at least, both cameras are very close in terms of quality of images...in my experience, the Leica M9's images have a little greenish tint to them (probably depending on the light source?), while the X Pro-1's images are warmer (again perhaps of the light source).

Naturally, the images I used were JPEG's 'out of the box' so to speak...and perhaps I should've used the RAW files from each camera instead. As I always maintain and say, cameras are nothing but tools. A carpenter needs a claw and a ball-peen hammer in his/her tool box. Brand loyalty taken to unreasonable partisan levels is always silly and unproductive. Both the M9 and the X Pro-1 have their weak and strong points...as mostly everything else in life. and that's all there is to it.

Yesterday I went to the Occupy Wall Street protest in Union Square with both the M9 and X Pro-1. Some of the images I made using both cameras can be viewed on The Leica File in a slideshow. I used the X Pro-1 when I needed the speed because of its AF, and used the M9 when I had the luxury of time to focus.

I was accosted by a number of photographers who were curious as to what I thought of the X Pro-1.

My Work: The Spice People of Mattencherry

Here's a short audio slideshow which I produced in under an hour yesterday of some stills I made on Mattencherry's main street during my The Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition/Workshop™. 

Mattencherry, part of Kochi, was once a bustling centre of trade, particularly in spices but is now but a shadow of its historical vibrancy, however godowns of ginger, basmati rice and other spices can still found on its main street. It is there that traders and porters work from the same small stores occupied by their forefathers.

All the stills are with a Leica M9 and post processed in Lightroom using my own split tone preset.

I, like many others, am at loss at what to call an audio slideshow. It seems to me that audio slideshow is cumbersome and old fashioned. Some like Benjamin Chesterton of Duckrabbit Multimedia call it photo-film...while others like John Stanmeyer call it audio-visual. Joe Weiss of SoundSlides calls it just that..soundslides.

But none of those have clicked with me.

Naked Eye: Leica M9 vs FujiFilm X Pro-1

JPEG #A STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA

 JPEG # B STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA

JPEG #A  (AUTO FIX IN PHOTOSHOP)

JPEG #B (AUTO FIX IN PHOTOSHOP)

Another poll for those who like playing the game.

Here are JPEG #A and JPEG #B; one is made with a Leica M9 at 200 iso with a Leica Elmarit 28mm at f2.8, while the other was made with a Fuji X Pro-1 at 200 iso with a Fujinon 18mm (equivalent of 27mm) at f2.0. The photographs were made within a few seconds from each other under the same lighting conditions, and using an automatic shutter speed.

The lower two are the same images after using Auto Fix in Photoshop. No other processing was done to either of them.

So what's your call? Which image was made with the M9, and which with the X Pro-1?




After having handled the M9 for about 15 months and the X Pro-1 for just over a week, I feel that both have a place in my tool box.  It took me a few hours to understand the ins and outs of the X Pro-1, and I haven't had frustrations to speak of once I ironed out its quirks. In contrast, the Leica M9 is a difficult camera with which I had considerable frustrations (and some pleasures) so far.

I am neither a Leica cheerleader nor a X Pro-1 groupie, and as I imply earlier, I consider them both to be useful tools for different jobs. That said, while the M9's build is better (more solid) than the X Pro-1, its many shortcomings (lack of AF, abysmal display, image quality issues at ISOs higher than 640, etc) are difficult to tolerate with the appearance of the X Pro-1 that is also well-built, has reasonable quality glass, has good image quality to 6400 iso, and a lovely display, apart from its many other technical advantages, such as its revolutionary hybrid viewfinder as one of numerous examples.

"Will the FujiFilm X Pro-1 dethrone the Leica M9? "

Sure, the Leica M9 not only has a mystique, but more tangibly, also provides a special 'feel' to the  photographs it produces...but the X Pro-1 image quality is excellent. Does it have the Leica "feel"? No it doesn't. The M9 is a full frame camera, and the X Pro-1 isn't. However, it has an APS-C sized sensor, which produces images that are said to be equal, if not superior, to those of full-frame cameras.

Will the FujiFilm X Pro-1 dethrone the Leica M9? I doubt it...but it's a very serious contender, and fills a niche for photographers who seek to add a digital rangefinder-like camera to their gear, and do not want to spend upwards of $7000 for a body to do it.

And for those who have voted in the previous poll in which I ask for the readers preference between photographs made with a Leica M9, a Fujifilm X Pro-1, a Canon 7D, a Canon 5D Mark II and a Panasonic GF1, the results favored the Leica M9 which got 38.5% of the votes, then the X Pro-1 which got about 33%.