Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I tried to find the image taken by Martin Rooney, then at Images, to illustrate another way of photographing the handlebars et al, on the move. Makes for unusual and wonderful imagery. We had an adventurous ride with you, Nathan. Good to know the malt saved the day. B. On 11-mei-2009, at 6:53, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on > those occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I > own mounted on it (the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal > distance. I would photograph while riding. I have done this on > several earlier occasions. However, yesterday I discovered a couple > of things: > > - when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the > results are not good ;-) > - the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when > going down, but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, > albeit not that hard) > - road rash hurts but is curable with single malt > > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB > > When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and > took some close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single > malts in our living room) to make sure the rangefinder was not > knocked out of alignment. It was fine. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information