Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: An Afternoon in Macau
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:48:48 -0500
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What you want to do, Bob, is toss it towards the Boston area.  I'll be here 
to catch it.  

What happened to you is exactly the problem I had with the G-1 and 20 mm 
lens while I was shooting in England recently.  My big, fat hands would 
accidentally touch some d*mn button or wheel and I'd then shoot a whole 
bunch of over exposed, underexposed or out of focus pictures.  These cameras 
all need lock buttons in their controls.  If Apple can put a lock on the 
iPod, Panasonic, et. al., can certainly do it on their cameras.  

I'm hoping the primary X-1 controls will be sufficiently be out of the way 
to avoid this problem.  

Regards, 

Dick



On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Robert D. Baron wrote:

> Thanks very much, Alastair, but I am wondering if you mean the third
> or the fourth?
> 
> If it is 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/Macau09/W_L1008995Puppets.jpg.html
> it is by my count the fourth, but be that as it may it is not so much
> a tribute to my talent as to the extreme cropping and dodging and
> levels manipulation capabilities of Lightroom.
> 
> And I've got this confession to make: I thought I had a really nice
> series of shots of the puppeteer standing in front of the show
> interacting with several children in the audience.  I thought it would
> be a masterpiece.  I was so busy shooting I didn't chimp or even look
> at the indicators in the viewfinder.  Then when I later realized the
> M8 shutter dial had slipped and shifted and the whole series was
> completely and irretrievably underexposed and lost I almost threw the
> damn thing in the harbor.
> 
> Which would have been quite a toss from where I was standing but I was
> ready to do it.
> 
> I need more practice.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ==On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM,  <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Some very nice records of Macau, but the third one really caught my eye.
>> The composition and way you have combined the punch and judy show with the
>> background buildings is inspired.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Alastair
>> 
> 
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