Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Field Trip Report
From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <jgp@gilplant.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 14:39:15 -0400

I don't know. I use a yellow filter outdoors in butt-ugly midday sun to 
keep the sky from washing out. But for an indoor shot like yours, 
especially where DOF was crucial, I get rid of it in a heartbeat. It 
probably made those flourescents worse! JMO...

Gilbert

On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 01:26  PM, Bob Adler wrote:

> Left on for the purpose of enhanced contrast. Wrong?
> --- "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <jgp@gilplant.com> wrote:
>> And to what purpose did you not think to remove the
>> filter?
>>
>> Gilbert
>>
>> On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 12:34  PM, Bob Adler
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/rgacpa/image-44818.html
>>> I tried to level the frame (as you can tell by the
>>> steel girder at the right) but obviously wasn't in
>> the
>>> center of the runway looking down the 2 miles of
>> the
>>> accelerator; thus the horizon distortion. This
>> shot
>>> was obviously hand held and, with a yellow filter
>> on,
>>> somewhat limited in the depth of field I could
>>> achieve. I believe it was shot at about 1/30. New
>>> TX400+1.
>>>
>>
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