Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina. Glad you enjoyed them. Australia, of course has a huge variety of environs to visit. Definitely plenty to photograph. Mid autumn here right now but still T-shirts and shorts here tonight. A number of friendly LUG members to visit as well. Ted may just come with you! I'm 90% certain these were with the 50 asph. I must have had lens detection turned off though. I've been playing with an M-coder for my other lenses but am not finding it reliable. The food pics were just taken with my chair only slightly back from the table. Crops would be to about 70% of the frame. At 640 ISO I could stop down a bit for more DoF. I did WB by sampling highlights on the plates. I am liking ACR for the processing, I think just updated to 4.41 and that has new improved profiles built in for the M8 as well. I also just discovered that opening the DNGs with ACR, adjusting and resaving them shrinks the files a lot but it is completely lossless. Anyway they end up about 5MB, still as DNG's. Clearly Mr Adobe has got better compression algorithms than the camera. Cool! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Hoppy holiday pics At 05:42 AM 4/19/2008, you wrote: ><http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/rb> > >In this episode, you may see scenic saltwater, senoritas strolling by the >sea, strange shoes, a slightly shark scarred cetacean, some succulent snacks >and Summilux snapped scenery! > >Geoff I enjoyed all of those, Hoppy. Australia is on my list of places to go and you make it very tempting! How did you photograph the plates of food? That's what I'd like to do with the M8 but I can't find anything to focus close enough. Are these cropped? Did you have to get back pretty far from the plate? Thanks! Tina Tina Manley ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI http://www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information