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Subject: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day.
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:23:08 -0500
References: <CC24B79D.2103E%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Glad to hear you are doing better, Mark.  2.5 miles sounds like a good 
start.

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 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day.


> 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/
>>>
>>>
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