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Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:50:36 -0400

And love the photo as much as the plane if not more so.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
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: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:43:33 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
> 
> Thanks, Mark.  They seemed proud of it.
> 
> And the prop was turning at idle, but, at 1/1250 sec, you can hardly tell
> it.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
> 
> 
>> LOVE that red airplane!
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Zenith+71.jpg.html
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> 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: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:03:45 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Cc: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
>>> 
>>> I have a Leica Elmarit-R 28mm that I purchased as a "normal" lens for my
>>> 4/3
>>> bodies, but found it very difficult to focus.  I took it to the airport
>>> on the
>>> E-1, set up to zone focus and use as a point and shoot.  Most of these
>>> images
>>> were made that way, though some were manually focused.
>>> 
>>> Sometimes, things just catch your attention, like these shadows:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Shadows+68.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Interesting forms are added to airplanes in order to increase efficiency:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Winglet+64.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> In these modern times, the Sunday drive with the wife can take on a
>>> different
>>> form:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Zenith+71.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> The favorite noisemaker of every airshow is the venerable North American
>>> AT-6
>>> or SNJ:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/AT-6+74.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Most people recognize the powerplant of that old workhorse, the DC-3:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/DC-3+55.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Sometimes old birds just roost or rest together:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old+Birds+50.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Looking at these images, I think I will try this more often.
>>> 
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
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