Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]very enjoyable set ric On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > Here's a short slideshow of 13 images from Miyazaki's summer Erekocha > Festival. Erekocha is local slang for 'Wow!" Miyazaki, a mainly rural > area, has had a difficult summer due to a foot and mouth outbreak among > cows and pigs, requiring wide scale slaughter of livestock. The crisis is > now over, but the economic effects are estimated to run to 235 billion yen > over the next 5 years. > > The locals were in need of a festival. Dancing in traditional summer > clothes holding fans, taiko drums, local food stalls, syrupy shaved ice > for the tots, ice cream for the little old grannies, beer and shochu for > the mums & dads. > > www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157624954499888/show/ > > All photos were taken with a 35mm Asph. 'Cron on an M8. > > Unfortunately, there is a pixel-fine line running the width of almost > every image, to the left of the centre when looking at a horizontal image, > or to the bottom when looking at a vertical image. I had the sensor > replaced about 4 months ago. The line is more obvious on the evening > images, taken at 640 ISO. I don't fancy sending this camera off to Solms > again, especially since new laws in Japan mean I'd have to pay tax on a > returned repaired item to the same extent as I would have to pay for the > import of a brand new camera. I think I'll have to e-mail some sample > images to Solms and see what they say. I'm vaguely hoping the problem > will just go away, but that doesn't seem likely. > > Has anyone encountered this problem? Did it just go away? > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information