Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful. And I'm a bit surprised you prefer the B&W version. Thanks for showing, Philippe > From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:51:27 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] bougainvillea in Arizona > > We're in Arizona and dealing with the consequences of watering a small > collection of plants over the summer - add a little water and every > plant with seeds decides it wants to suck up some of the water. > > We had planted some bougainvillea around the deck and since the day > was overcast I did a bit of photography of those. > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/10/16/_L3U6934-crv-rtch.jpg> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/10/16/_L3U6940-crv.jpg> > > I also converted on to black and white which, I think, I like best: > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/10/16/_L3U6940-bw.jpg> > > Leica 100 APO and Canon 1Ds MKII, tripod. > > I'm a little grumpy because even though I was VERY careful with focus > the focal plane seems to be behind the indicated focus in the > viewscreen. I'm using the prism viewfinder and boy, these looked dead > on but in fact the focal plane was mm further away from the lens than > I thought. I've noticed this with my Leica telephotos as well. > > Thanks for looking and, if you desire, commenting. > > Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >