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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 31/12/2012: serious young man and high ISO
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:09:17 +0000
References: <E24CD190-383C-493F-BD8C-90F97C6483BF@frozenlight.eu>

Natahn,

Beautiful studies. The one of the pen and equations is great. Do you really 
need ISO 6400? If you shot this at F1.4 or F2, you could probably have shot 
this on a DMR!*!*!

Happy New Year

Charlie

Charlie Chan
www.charlie-chan.co.uk




On 1 Jan 2013, at 17:35, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> My son is 23 and in his last year of the Masters programme in Aerospace 
> Engineering at the University of Bath. He is spending his Christmas break 
> with us here in Alicante, but he has been putting in at least 3-4 hours a 
> day doing this, including on the last day of the year:
> 
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239620&k=BMv22wQ&lb=1&s=O
> 
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2299239724&k=cQmKrkc&lb=1&s=O
> 
> I am very proud of him. 
> 
> On a technical note: these images were taken at ISO 6400 and a relatively 
> wide aperture with a 100mm macro lens. Oh how I wish that my Leicas could 
> do something similar at such ISO speeds. When the light is good, the Leica 
> glass blows anything else away; but when it is dark(ish), the inferior 
> sensors let down those magnificent lenses.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> 
> 
> Sign my petition against the gun lobby:
> 
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/include-nra-list-terrorist-organizations-group-actively-promotes-killing-us-civilians/GgyPdyy4
> 
> YNWA
> 
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