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Subject: [Leica] Panasonic GF1 - gallery and blog post
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:51:23 -0500
References: <4B744B08.1040707@whitedogs.co.uk> <19b6d42d1002111359r5d1e56d5kad688811619a615e@mail.gmail.com> <4B7563B5.2030401@whitedogs.co.uk>

the second set is especially nice

ric


On Feb 12, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Mark Pope wrote:

> Vince,
> 
> flowers are SOOOO last-year! :-)
> Glad you liked the pictures. The cathedral is Bayeux.  It was taken with 
> an M6TTL and 28mm CV Ultron lens with (IIRC) an orange filter.
> 
> If you want gardens, I can recommend you have a look at
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/lanhydrock
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/rosemoor
> 
> Not a piece of doggie-do anywhere to be seen :-)
> 
> Enjoy your G1.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Pope,
> Swindon, Wilts
> UK
> 
> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
> Picture a week (2010)  
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
> Picture a week (2009)  
> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>               (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
> 
> 
> Vince Passaro wrote:
>> Mark,
>> Shouldn't you be taking pictures of FLOWERS? If you look at many of our 
>> LUG
>> galleries, *we* take pictures of flowers, not dog-dookie in a bag strung 
>> up
>> on a fence mate.
>> That was a great picture. As was No. 7 I think it was, the little alley: 
>> it
>> was like the geometry of nowhere.
>> (I see some FLOWERS in your large format work. Start thinking that way 
>> again
>> friend. Nobody wants to know from all that reality.
>> The picture of the cathedral/basilica/church in Normandy was superb in 
>> your
>> travel section. What was that taken with? It was an ideal (in my mind) b&w
>> photograph.
>> Anyway thanks for sharing the fine work. but come spring, think gardens.
>> Vince
>> PS I just picked up a G1 lightly used, $400 with 14-45 lens; much the same
>> guts as the GF1 but affordable for me, plus it has a viewfinder. Not 
>> nearly
>> so handsome, I admit. Anyway I'm loving it. Interestingly, I have a
>> Summicron 50 and a CV 21/4 that work beautifully on it but the kit 14-45 
>> is
>> within a hair's breadth of matching them in image quality. My cheap Elmar
>> 90/4 is amazing on it. And, further afield, I have a Minolta MD 24/2.8 
>> that
>> is as beautiful a lens as any I've owned and all its strengths (but width 
>> of
>> course) shine on the G1 as well. What great cameras.
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>> I've just finished writing up a blog post about the Panasonic GF1 and 
>>> 20mm
>>> pancake lens.  If you're interested, it can be viewed here.
>>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog/?p=256
>>> 
>>> I have also created a small gallery of pictures taken with the GF1 - the
>>> gallery is here...http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=gf1
>>> 
>>> I hope you like them.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> --
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mark Pope,
>>> Swindon, Wilts
>>> UK
>>> 
>>> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>>> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
>>> Picture a week (2010)
>>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
>>> Picture a week (2009)
>>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>>>              (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>>> 
>>> 
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