Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/11

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Italian Fall
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:22:32 +0000
References: <CA+yJO1A6XSVa3d1APOboboJD2Z4Dc=JRJ=KAMY51HT783cQfTw@mail.gmail.com> <CAMvGeU-KP+J+DpKah0QdP0KZCatBpXPDie7OYVzpTiLh-HgrCA@mail.gmail.com> <CA+yJO1DL_3MHr2_XdH63Q4QBGYoDMHHEWv-F-4SSHyrxDxzXaQ@mail.gmail.com> <527FCC8C.8070405@gmx.de> <CA+yJO1DooFriGP6ATJSae1viHst2r_Ci-JwwoOt=MmYq=aLkyg@mail.gmail.com> <AE8B080A-9405-4162-9C5E-CD1AD8787811@icloud.com>

The other thing is that to get good focus you have to zoom in to x5 or x10 
but then to get the framing you need to see everything, at close distances 
it does not take much movement to lose focus.

john


> -----Original Message-----
> >> On 10.11.2013 18:42, Tina Manley wrote:
> >>
> >>> Absolutely.  More than suitable.  I would never have carried the R
> >>> body and DMR all this way and up a hill to photograph the rose.  I
> >>> just had to carry my usual M240 body, my 100 macro lens with an
> >>> adapter, and the tiny EVF.
> >>>  It makes macro photography possible again for me!
> 
> >>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Bill Nelsch
> >>> <photobynelsch at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Tina, what are your thoughts now on using R lenses on the M240?  Is
> >>> it a
> >>>> suitable replacement for the R body?
> 
> >>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Tina Manley
> >>>> <images at comporium.net>
> 
> >>>>> It has been chilly and cold here all day.  Feels like winter!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/153313619
> 
> The closest petals may have been within the plane of focus though there's
> too much "movement" to refer to any part of the image as "sharp."
> 
> looks to me as the second layer of petals with the water droplets on them 
> is
> where the plane of focus was when the shutter clicked.
> 
> I wonder if this discrepancy between what you saw in view finder and what
> was recorded as the wind moved the bloom is due to shutter lag with EVF
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 


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