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Subject: [Leica] B. D. PAWS with a $699 DSLR
From: leica at robsteve.com (Robert Stevens)
Date: Tue Oct 25 08:08:42 2005
References: <6.2.3.4.2.20051025112729.03bdbe20@mail.robsteve.com> <BF83BF6F.747D%bdcolen@comcast.net>

It might just be that your subjects are moving, but the people on the 
edge are still.  Such as the little girl and the mother, or the young 
couple on the train.  This one BTW is the best of the seires I looked 
at.  The mother and the lady in the background really adds to it.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/Tea-Time/Tbaby

I would just bump the ISO up to 800 and deal with the noise.  Have 
you tried shooting RAW and in the RAW conversion select B&W or -100 
saturation in the RAW converter.  I have noticed this doesn't 
transfer the color noise like when you open it in PhotoShop and use 
channel mixer to create a B&W.

Robert



At 11:54 AM 10/25/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:

>1 - The kid is in focus, Robert;
>2. T3_0711205- The entire series was shot from my lap ;-)
>3. - And the new shot of the kid the point of focus is a plane from the eye
>lashes across to the stitching on the coat.
>
>These new shots were taken at f2 at a 30th on a moving subway - and all the
>subway shots are at slow shutter speeds, wide apertures, and moving
>train...In addition to which, most are grab shots - so is the focus what it
>would be in a studio - or at a faster shutter speed on a solid platform? No.
>
>
>On 10/25/05 10:41 AM, "Robert Stevens" <leica@robsteve.com> wrote:
>
> > B.D.
> >
> > What type of AF does this have?   Are there multiple points to
> > select?  I have noticed in your past few PAWs the focus has been off
> > a bit.  It is sort of like a lot of the Leica D2 shots you see where
> > the focus is not on the subject but somewhere else like the
> > background.  In t2, it seems to be somewhere else like the
> > sleeve.  On some of the shots prior to it in the gallery, it seems to
> > be focused to something on the side of the frame.  In this one it is
> > focused on the guy on the left of the frame (
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Tea-Time/T3_071205 ) .  It just seems
> > odd that the focus is getting things on the side of the frame.
> >
> > Here is another where the kid is oof and the mother on the edge of
> > the frame is in focus.  http://gallery.leica-users.org/Tea-Time/Tbaby  .
> >
> > Is this a focus point selection thing or just a coincidence that
> > things on the side of the frame are sharper?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > At 11:17 AM 10/25/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >
> >> Shot with the new Olympus E-500 DSLR prosumer body with it's built-in 
> >> b&w
> >> mode - only post shoot adjustment was some levels/curves tweaking.
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Tea-Time/t2
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Tea-Time/t1
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/25/05 10:02 AM, "Ed" <edwin76@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone used these Jupiter 8 Russian lenses on their leica's
> >> before? They
> >>> are 50mm/2 heard a lot of good things about them and they are dirt 
> >>> cheap
> >>> atm. I've also heard some stories that say that they have radioactive
> >>> compounds in their makeup, any idea if there's any truth to this?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Ed
> >>>
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