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Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:56:48 -0500
References: <CC28A55C.212BC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Thanks again.  Made with my "orphaned" Elmarit-R 28mm, which has been 
overlooked for a while.

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 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again


> 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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