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Subject: [Leica] 2010 BOATING PESO - A Knife-Edge Horizon
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:04:39 -0500
References: <1DA2C679-3E5B-473D-9368-B78090644BCF@comcast.net>

I find the "weight" of the water and POV 
very compelling (in the tiny image).

and the "noise" extremely unpleasant
and totally destroying the effects mentioned above
when viewing the larger image

which I don't understand.
I thought the d300 held the noiseless record to date.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Last Saturday we had one of our rare super visibility days on the water 
> and a knife-edge horizon.   Usually, distant views show vertical smearing 
> due to refraction. 
> 
> The was taken on Vineyard Sound from a point just off Woods Hole.  The 
> boats are at the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard.  East 
> Chop is the point of land to the left; West Chop the one to the right.  
> This a 100% crop with the 70-200 zoom at 200 mm from about 3.6 nautical 
> miles off West Chop. The horizon is about 2 miles away from our position.  
> 
> The scene was very low contrast and the autofocus on the D300 had a hard 
> time locking up.  Manual focus wasn't much better since the lens has no 
> infinity stop.  Only two shots out of ten were properly focused.  
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_boating/300_8509.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/2ctkot6
> 
> C&C always welcome.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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