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Below: Program mode indoors at night for mixed flash-and-ambient exposures.

When using flash and there's a glass window behind, angle it so the flash's reflection won't intrude.

This one (at left, showing a plasma cutter in action) had to be made while wearing welding goggles, yet, thanks to the GR1's illuminated finder displays, it was still possible to be certain of focus, framing and flash exposure.

The hotel above really is painted lilac(!)

The lighthouse picture is an example of a strongly back-lit scene where the over-exposure LED was blinking, indicating too much light, or over-exposure. This was on ISO 200. Nothing can be done about this short of using a neutral density filter; however, doing nothing in this situation is the same as dialing in some over-exposure on the ± compensation dial, which is what one should do in such a situation to avoid a silhouette. How much of this inadvertant compensation actually occurs depends on the film speed and the ambient light level. Considering very bright seacoast or snow scenes, this is like having an evaluative meter in a GR1 and may be a good reason to choose ISO 200 film over ISO 100*.

*Had slower film been used, the camera could have accessed another EV's worth of exposure: at ISO 200, it can only meter to EV 16, but at ISO 100 and slower, it meters to EV 17.

At left a Forestry Commission road in South Wales closed due to the Foot-and-Mouth epidemic. At right, a road sign bound to confound visitors to Wales, especially those trying to read it at 70mph: "Cerbydau yn dod ar ganol y ffordd," which is of course "Oncoming vehicles in middle of road."

(Right) This one's another example of the GR1's lack of shutter lag. It was just after 10:00pm and the light was poor, but the steam train had surprised me earlier when the light was better, and I'd missed it.