Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/12
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flowers are SOOOO last-year! :-)
Glad you liked the pictures. The cathedral is Bayeux. It was taken with
an M6TTL and 28mm CV Ultron lens with (IIRC) an orange filter.
If you want gardens, I can recommend you have a look at
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/lanhydrock
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/rosemoor
Not a piece of doggie-do anywhere to be seen :-)
Enjoy your G1.
Cheers
Mark
Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK
Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk
Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
Picture a week (2010) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
Picture a week (2009) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
(2008)
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
Vince Passaro wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Shouldn't you be taking pictures of FLOWERS? If you look at many of our LUG
> galleries, *we* take pictures of flowers, not dog-dookie in a bag strung up
> on a fence mate.
>
> That was a great picture. As was No. 7 I think it was, the little alley: it
> was like the geometry of nowhere.
>
> (I see some FLOWERS in your large format work. Start thinking that way
> again
> friend. Nobody wants to know from all that reality.
>
> The picture of the cathedral/basilica/church in Normandy was superb in your
> travel section. What was that taken with? It was an ideal (in my mind) b&w
> photograph.
>
> Anyway thanks for sharing the fine work. but come spring, think gardens.
>
> Vince
>
> PS I just picked up a G1 lightly used, $400 with 14-45 lens; much the same
> guts as the GF1 but affordable for me, plus it has a viewfinder. Not nearly
> so handsome, I admit. Anyway I'm loving it. Interestingly, I have a
> Summicron 50 and a CV 21/4 that work beautifully on it but the kit 14-45 is
> within a hair's breadth of matching them in image quality. My cheap Elmar
> 90/4 is amazing on it. And, further afield, I have a Minolta MD 24/2.8 that
> is as beautiful a lens as any I've owned and all its strengths (but width
> of
> course) shine on the G1 as well. What great cameras.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I've just finished writing up a blog post about the Panasonic GF1 and 20mm
>> pancake lens. If you're interested, it can be viewed here.
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog/?p=256
>>
>> I have also created a small gallery of pictures taken with the GF1 - the
>> gallery is here...http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=gf1
>>
>> I hope you like them.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Mark
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Pope,
>> Swindon, Wilts
>> UK
>>
>> Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>> Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
>> Picture a week (2010)
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
>> Picture a week (2009)
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>> (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>>
>>
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