[Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

A very nice study, Jim. Also the simplest possible outfit to get into the 
close up world.  Now I just need an SL or SL2 plus the
lens. 

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jim Hemenway
Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:21
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3

Hopper:

I shot this with the 60mm macro on a Leica SL, don't know if you can go 
any cheaper:

http://www.hemenway.com/pages/Day%20Lily.htm


Jim


G Hopkinson wrote:

> Don, I think that the macro thing is starting to call to me as well. Then 
> I start thinking about what's required to make it happen
> with an M old way or new way. Or buy an older R (for cost) then glass for 
> it. Then I think, be rational, to have a play I could
get
> a macro for my Nikon manual focus slr's cheaply. Then I start thinking 
> about the Zeiss ZF Planar 100 macro, (have you seen the MTF
> graphs for that lens!)then I realise I'm back at the second mortgage 
> point. I think its called technolust!
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3
> 
> Hoppy,
> Thank you for the compliment.  If the demons at work give in somewhat I may
> do an abbreviated series this year.  Last year I played around a lot with
> bad lenses used up close and this year I might try traditional macro shots
> with a somewhat different viewpoint.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> On 1/21/07, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
>>Don, that's a great shot of the camellia. I love the colour and the sharp
>>droplet.
>>Cheers
>>Hoppy
>>