Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didier, I like week 7, but week 8 is a real winner. You were in the right place with camera in hand. Great shot. Len On Feb 25, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Didier Ludwig wrote: > Been away for 10 days but could keep the paw pace so far. > > Week 7 is from the Lucerne carnival. Shot at noon where the people > are not that drunken yet. > http://mogool.com/PAW2007/?pic=7 > R-D1s, 28/3.5 Color Skopar, @ f16, ISO 200 > > Week 8 is from my holidays in the Avers valley, a helicoptre air > rescue action in the night. While we were night skiing and eating > raclette in a heatened tent, the swiss REGA (air rescuers) brought > in snowboard tourists who got stuck in a rock face in the > afternoon. As the guys had no alarm system with and there was no > telecom network in this remote area, they were lucky that their > hotel owner called the rescuers after they did not come in for the > evening meal. Thanks to infrared search instruments they were found > in a short time. > http://mogool.com/PAW2007/?pic=8 > R-D1s, 35/1.4 Summilux asph, @ f1.4, ISO 800 > My challenge was not to get the lens full of the snow blown by the > helicoptre rotors, and to shoot handheld at a 1/12th second. > > Comments welcome as always, > Didier > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information