Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Often in ACR I'll correct the upward tilt a bit. Give it a -11. Make it more view camera like. But on this one I left it. Its shot from way down the block at 140mm which is quite longer and more compressed in the end than I normally shoot. Hours shooting with the 80-200 it was rarely set near 200 though. It was almost always right near 80. And I have non zoom fast nice glass for that. But the zoom made me feel like NY was my Oyster. So I just shot like crazy as I walked north from Canal. I made it to 34th. 2.5 miles. As my ass was in a sling for two months up until last week it feels pretty good. Walking and shooting that is. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:00:18 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day. > > Mark, > > I find this to be an interesting image. I never imagined fire escapes in > such close proximity to one another. And, though you obviously had to tilt > the camera upward, the distortion is not bad at all. A very nice job! > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:53 PM > Subject: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day. > > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/thisyear/120711_163958.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/coanl25 >> >> 7/11/12, 4:39:58 PM, Soho facade, 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor >> >> This is a real lightweight zoom about Nikons lightest. >> To an old timer such as myself when I think zoom I think 80-200mm. The >> others are upstarts not to be trusted. >> This is a compact light one they made a few decades ago then stopped. >> It got too easy and non competitive for them to do this. They had to move >> on >> to the 70-300's which were dumb and heavy and I got one and rarely feel >> like >> walking around with it. It's an ED. >> >> This 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor could focus a bit closer for my taste. >> But's 332.85 grams, 11.7 oz's, .7 of a pound. 3 oz's lighter than my 80mm >> 1.8 Nikkor D AF. >> I got it around 2004 for less than a hundred bucks used from Pro Photo in >> Portland Oregon. >> >> This shot I'm please by the way it all came together. And it appears to be >> sharper than heck. (Sorry Erwin!) >> >> Fire escapes in Soho are for sure a clich?. But I think if you do a real >> good job you're off the hook a bit. >> >> >> >> - - from my iRabs. >> Mark Rabiner >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information