Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] First 15 mm Pix
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Thu Feb 2 08:37:22 2006
References: <p06230902c00718b5337b@[131.142.12.152]> <C2E5B62B-910F-4000-9CBA-10D99F10E103@ralgo.nl>

Bruce - I was tempted by the 12 but given all I'd read about how much 
trouble it was to keep your own feet out of the shots I decided to go 
with the 15.   It presents its own problems.  Early on, until I 
learned to position myself properly w.r.t the sun, my shadow kept 
appearing in the corner of the frame - a real nuisance.

Thanks for the comments.

>The sky shot is my favorite ...................... have you tried a 12mm?
>
>B.
>
>On 2-feb-2006, at 3:27, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>
>>I got a 15 mm Heliar from Stephen Gandy a couple of weeks ago. This 
>>is the first time I used a really wide lens.  It's been a gas.  The 
>>strange perspective is fun to play with.  I was about 5 feet from 
>>the tree in the first photo.
>>
>>I used Ted's trick of framing in the 15 mm finder then levelling 
>>with the internal framelines before taking the picture.  It worked 
>>- most of the time.  Some levelling required in PS in a few.
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_02A_0075_web
>>
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_00_0042_web
>>
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_07_0049_web
>>
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_23A_0065_web
>>
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_16A_0089_web
>>
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_33A_0106_web
>>
>>
>>02A, 16A and 33A are of the Cape Cod Canal; 00, 07 and 23A were 
>>taken at Marblehead Light.
>>
>>Comments welcome as always.
>>--
>>Regards,
>>
>>Dick
>>Boston MA
>>

-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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