Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/11

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Subject: [Leica] San Pablo Atitalan, Guatemala
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Oct 11 17:32:25 2005
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I'm currently trying to scan my films and I am amazed at how much you 
guys can achieve on the web. I must be doing something wrong :-) 
Sometimes I'm sure I'd be faster in the darkroom: in fact ----

Thanks for posting.

On 12/10/2005, at 10:26 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 08:19 PM 10/11/2005, you wrote:
>> The colour temperature variation between some of the images makes 
>> them jar a bit as a group.
>
> Yes, that's one reason I hesitated to put them up as jpegs since I 
> haven't processed the RAW.  Most of them were made with one tungsten 
> light hanging from the ceiling but some were made before or after the 
> light was turned on and only have firelight.  When I process the Raw 
> files I can correct all of that.
>
>>  I wondered about the focal point on some of the portraits: how easy 
>> is it to focus in this light or is this Auto-focus on the Canon.
>
> Most of them are auto-focus, but I was using some Leica R lenses that 
> I had to focus myself.  Not easy in this light with the Canon 
> viewfinder.  Now I have the Canon split-focus screen, but I didn't 
> then.  I like the Canon focus selection with the 1DMII but you don't 
> get that with the 10D and some of these were made with that camera.  
> None of these have been sharpened beyond what the camera automatically 
> does for the jpeg previews. I just wanted to get them up while 
> everybody might be thinking about what has happened there.
>
>
>> Thanks for letting us know and remember this and many other families 
>> both in Guatemala and now in Pakistan.
>
> Amen.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>
>
>
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Alastair


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