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Subject: [Leica] leicanon experiments part 2
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed Jul 4 10:14:50 2007

I espeically like the second portrait, the one with the bubbles.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.ocm

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>
>Sent: Jul 4, 2007 7:31 AM
>To: "Leica Users Group (LUG)" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: [Leica] leicanon experiments part 2
>
>
>further leicanon experiments with a 50 lux and 90 cron.
>
>http://www.shinozuka.org/20070703leicanon/
>
>-rei
>
>> To: "Leica Users Group (LUG)" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: leicanon experiments
>> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:17:15 -0400
>> From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>
>> 
>> i rented a canon 20D for a week to try out this leicanon thing
>> you all are talking about.  i never even held a canon before;
>> the 20D with battery grip looks and handles a lot like an R4-7.
>> 
>> focusing was not easy on the 20D's smallish (compared with an R or SL)
>> viewfinder image, but it's probably my problem.  my eyes have never 
>> been great--poor eyesight is what pushed me into the M system 
>> in the first place.   it would be great to have some kind of magnifier to
>> make the focusing image "full size".  maybe it's not a problem with
>> full-frame cameras like the 5d.
>> 
>> the $75 Roxsen EOS-R adapter i used allows the camera's focus 
>> confirmation to work--the middle dot in the image blinks red 
>> and a red ball illuminates at the lower right of the viewfinder.
>> 
>> i pretty much stuck to the 80 lux.
>> 
>> here's what i got yesterday:
>> 
>> http://www.shinozuka.org/20070630leicanon/
>> 
>> -rei
> 
>-- 
>Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
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