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Subject: [Leica] 2010 BOATING PESO - A Knife-Edge Horizon
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:43:35 -0500
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Really?
I've never seen this uniform pattern before.
Amazing

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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http://www.imagist.com
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Aug 9, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> The "noise" is atmospheric refraction.  Can't do much about that.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 09, 2010, at 2:04 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
> 
>> I find the "weight" of the water and POV 
>> very compelling (in the tiny image).
>> 
>> and the "noise" extremely unpleasant
>> and totally destroying the effects mentioned above
>> when viewing the larger image
>> 
>> which I don't understand.
>> I thought the d300 held the noiseless record to date.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser 
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> Last Saturday we had one of our rare super visibility days on the water 
>>> and a knife-edge horizon.   Usually, distant views show vertical 
>>> smearing due to refraction. 
>>> 
>>> The was taken on Vineyard Sound from a point just off Woods Hole.  The 
>>> boats are at the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard.  East 
>>> Chop is the point of land to the left; West Chop the one to the right.  
>>> This a 100% crop with the 70-200 zoom at 200 mm from about 3.6 nautical 
>>> miles off West Chop. The horizon is about 2 miles away from our 
>>> position.  
>>> 
>>> The scene was very low contrast and the autofocus on the D300 had a hard 
>>> time locking up.  Manual focus wasn't much better since the lens has no 
>>> infinity stop.  Only two shots out of ten were properly focused.  
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_boating/300_8509.jpg.html
>>> or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2ctkot6
>>> 
>>> C&C always welcome.
>>> 
>>> Regards, 
>>> 
>>> Dick
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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