Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner showed: Subject: [Leica] 1/11/11 snow, bike, balloon > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110111_224455.jpg.html Sir Rabiner, A fine photo indeed! :-) Night or day, you capture these stranger than life images when most of us are warm and cozy in our beds! :-) Mark old buddy, a very nice shot! Good on you lad! Even though these days any pictures of snow give me the chillies! ;-) It's not bad in this case because it's about 5000 KLMS away from me! ;-) cheers, ted > 1/11/11 snow, bike, balloon. Darned close to 11 too! But PM not AM > A snow day. One of many this year. Maybe not the last. A snow night. > I went through all the years pic getting caught up on my Keywording or at > least the flowers key worded. > This was not a flower. Maybe you noticed. But the red caught me eye. > Some people give bouquets of balloons instead of flowers. > Its the gift that keeps on giving. Till they pop. Or fly escape out the > window. > > Shot manual focus full frame with the 45mm 2.8 P Nikkor made by the > largest > lens making company in the world and from choice glass. Cosina. This > puppy > almost coast me 500 bucks and I'd have to say it was worth it. I'm > guessing > very above average glass choices in this Tessar pancake. To make up for > its > economy of number of elements. Also some very above average coatings. A > labor of love from Mr. Kobayashi is my guess. I just think a slow lens > makes things easier for the designer. But I find I really like to stop > down > a bit if I can to make sure I nail my focus even though my viewing screen > is > quite bright on my D700 I've had since October. In this case f 5 nailed it > and the iso went to 5600 and my shutter speed stayed at the 100th of a > second I had it set on. I do many shots at the maxed out 64,000 iso with > my > auto iso setting. > > Bikes in the snow can look lonely. > If you told me I'd bee shooting stopped down in the dead of night I'd be > telling you that would be in the year 2525. > F 5 and be there! > > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information