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Subject: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day.
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:59:20 -0400

Great job Rabs you didn't by any chance shoot that at 1/1000 s at f/16.0? @
iso 400?  At a subject distance of 20 meters? And a focal length of 140.0
mm?

Wait I'll go back and measure it.


- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:53:01 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/thisyear/120711_163958.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/coanl25
> 
> 7/11/12, 4:39:58 PM, Soho facade, 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor
> 
> This is a real lightweight zoom about Nikons lightest.
> To an old timer such as myself when I think zoom I think 80-200mm. The
> others are upstarts not to be trusted.
> This is a compact light one they made a few decades ago then stopped.
> It got too easy and non competitive for them to do this. They had to move 
> on
> to the 70-300's which were dumb and heavy and I got one and rarely feel 
> like
> walking around with it. It's an ED.
> 
>  This 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor could focus a bit closer for my taste.
> But's 332.85 grams, 11.7 oz's, .7 of a pound. 3 oz's lighter than my 80mm
> 1.8 Nikkor D AF.
> I got it around 2004 for less than a hundred bucks used from Pro Photo in
> Portland Oregon.
> 
> This shot I'm please by the way it all came together. And it appears to be
> sharper than heck. (Sorry Erwin!)
> 
> Fire escapes in Soho are for sure a clich?. But I think if you do a real
> good job you're off the hook a bit.
> 
> 
> 
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
> 
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