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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A splash of vivid colour - Friday Flower
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Ming Thein)
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 00:06:48 +0800
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Minature landscapes involving bonsai? :p

Thein Onn Ming
Sent from my iPhone

On May 29, 2009, at 23:57, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:

> No - unfortunately it's no use for that.
> It only focuses to about 6 feet on the infinity mark, it's a lens  
> from a Braun Paxette and has a different register somewhere between  
> Leica LTM and M42.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
> Ming Thein wrote:
>> Atmospheric landscapes?
>>
>> Thein Onn Ming
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 29, 2009, at 23:17, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> oding: 7bit
>>>
>>> Thanks Ming,
>>>
>>> so do I, but it's hard to think of other subjects where it might  
>>> be useful, perhaps for portraits? (perhaps not, portraits from  
>>> that close are almost certain to make the subject nervous).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>> Thein Onn Ming wrote:
>>>> I rather like the milky blur, actually.
>>>>
>>>> On May 29, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've just been playing around with Canon LTM lenses on Novoflex  
>>>>> bellows on my Canon 20D and captured this splash of colour in  
>>>>> the garden.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Garden__MG_9586.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> In contrast, this one is a rather more restful shot of a  
>>>>> Wisteria flower taken last week with a very old Steinheil  
>>>>> Cassarit: The milky blur was not intentional, the lens seems to  
>>>>> capture it like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Garden__MG_9474.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> For the technically minded, it's a set up with plenty of  
>>>>> adapters: LTM to M42 on the lens / M42 to CY from the lens to  
>>>>> the bellows / CY to EOS from the bellows to the camera.
>>>>>
>>>>> C+C more than welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wishing you all a nice long weekend. All the best from a  
>>>>> gloriously sunny Hannover
>>>>> Douglas
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> THEIN Onn Ming
>>>> *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com
>>>> www.flickr.com/mingthein
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> lmost certain to make the subject nervous).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>> Thein Onn Ming wrote:
>>>> I rather like the milky blur, actually.
>>>>
>>>> On May 29,
>>
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