Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A very pleasant voyage, and an excellent pano series Howard. Some of them don't look as if they were Pano, and that is your art and I think greatest achievement - producing a seemless faithful reproduction of what you witnessed; I love that. Gives you the feeling - I am there. :-) Ready when you are for more ;-) Thanks for sharing Philippe Howard Cummer wrote: > Hi Luggers, > Last night I got to sleep in my own Hong Kong bed again after 162 > days. Filling the time in retirement sometimes feels like hard work! > After Photokina wife Esther and I traveled to Italy and France. I > took along my Novoflex pano equipment but lost the bushing that sizes > the bubble level platin from 1/2 to 3/8 so couldn't use the damn > thing on the tripod that I had brought. I just hauled all that heavy > weight around from one place to another. I used my M8 and Nikon D700 > as the mood struck me - the M8 for nights and interiors and the Nikon > for just about everything else. Its better high ISO performance > compensated for the slower lenses in most cases. Next time (if there > is a next time given what is happening to my retirement portfolio!) I > will take only one system - likely the Nikon as it is the most > versatile. From what I saw at Photokina I may add some Zeiss lenses > to the Nikon kit if and when they are available in HK. > I have posted a few panos in a new folder in the LUG gallery. Please > have a look. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Photos+from+Europe/ > > http://tinyurl.com/5ucctl > > These were taken mostly with the M8 and the 24 Elmarit in vertical > format and then stitched together in CS2. One is taken with the Canon > G9 - and a couple with the Nikon D700 and the 50 f1.4. One problem > with the M8, not experienced with the D700, was dust spots on the > sensor which showed up when I stopped down to increase depth of > field. That required quite a bit of spotting in Photoshop not > required with the Nikon photos due to the 700's auto cleaning > feature. I have one persistent spot on the M8 sensor which is going > to require wet cleaning sometime this week. > Enjoy, > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >