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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Super-wide Auto P+S in York Minster
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:59:54 +0200
References: <7vpj0h$4ev6ta@pd3mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

Thanks Ted,

I cheated a little - I have one of those perspex spirit level thingies 
you can slot into the shoe - that and the card from the end of a film 
box to get the camera level.

All the best from Hannover
Douglas

Ted Grant wrote:
> Douglas Sharp showed:
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Super-wide Auto P+S in York Minster
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> I found these slides of York Minster in a drawer the 
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> other day - they've been there since 1991.
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> Shot by a Minolta CLE with a 15mm CV lens.
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>   "by" is intentional - all I did was put the camera on 
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> a table or window ledge, set the aperture and get out 
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> of the way - the CLE did the rest all by itself.
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> The blurred spots are people walking past the camera, 
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> not ghosts of long dead archbishops:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Mostly+old+stuff/
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Mostly+old+stuff/%3c%3c%3c%3c%3c%3c%3c
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> Hi Douglas,
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> As simple as the routine may sound, you actually have some very fine
> interiors with perfect vertical lines in both horizontal and vertical
> compositions. Well done. This simple correct vertical lines make the
> photographs a pleasure to look at. Thanks.
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> ted
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