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Subject: [Leica] Columbus Circle purple flowers - past midnight
From: pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:19:13 -0700
References: <C837E5EA.636D1%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

I didn't know that you can use the 50mm f/1.8D on the 40x body.
I have the lens on my N80 which I bought for my wife long time ago.
She has never used it, btw.

I agree, the flowers are sharp.  I especially like the fountain in the
background.

Is night-time your favorite time to go out? ;)

-Pasvorn

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> f 1.8 and be there again with my lightweight small cheap 99 dollar gem the
> AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D;
> Which I have to focus manually on my compact and cheap 40x body. And that
> does not always work out so well wide open as there is no ground glass no
> low magnification.
> It becomes a 75mm lens with the 1.5 crop factor. Giving your astounding
> grabbing power in the package.
> On this shot I  had to check and make sure I had not popped up the flash.
> Its pretty sharp this picture. At 60th of a second. Others in this series
> I'd popped the flash but you can hardly tell them apart.
> I see they get stopped down to f5 with the pop up and the iso dropped to
> 800.
> A full iso 1600 was required on the shot you are looking at. I go back and
> check the iso the auto setting put them out.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100524_004152b.jpg.html
>
>
> http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/ProductDetail.page?pid=2137
>
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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