--- title: Rainier at Dawn | daily.dev description: A personal account of a pre-dawn trip to Sunrise at Mount Rainier for landscape photography and video. The author lugged a Blackmagic Pyxis 12K video camera... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rainier-at-dawn-2rm9ae0fs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rainier at Dawn | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of a pre-dawn trip to Sunrise at Mount Rainier for landscape photography and video. The author lugged a Blackmagic Pyxis 12K video camera... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rainier-at-dawn-2rm9ae0fs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2Rm9Ae0fS.png og:image:alt: Rainier at Dawn og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rainier at Dawn **[scottstuff.net](https://daily.dev/sources/scottstuff)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of a pre-dawn trip to Sunrise at Mount Rainier for landscape photography and video. The author lugged a Blackmagic Pyxis 12K video camera and a Hasselblad X2D II with a 35-100mm zoom up the trail, aiming to capture Zoom background footage. Despite not achieving the original goal, the scenery was stunning. The post includes reflections on the Hasselblad X2D II's image quality, its 100MP sensor's cropping capability, and the lack of long native lenses in the X system. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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