Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/23

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Subject: [Leica] Friday Flowers - Merry Christmas
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:23:08 +0100
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Beautiful flower shots Aram, for you too, Merry Christams
Lluis

El 23/12/2011, a las 22:32, Aram Langhans escribi?:

> Playing around with the poinsettia and came up with these.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/W2011/fl/pointsettia-8893.jpg.html
>
> This is a composite of 6 images
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/W2011/fl/pointsettia-8912-Edit.jpg.html
>
> And finally, an experiment.  My father-in-law bought a cheap,  
> Vivitar 2x teleconverter, so I slapped my 100/APO on to it and gave  
> it a try.  I?m impressed.  I was not set to be impressed.  My last  
> experience with a 2x was many years ago with my Rollei SL-35 and got  
> the best converter they made at the time.  Underwhelmed.  So, I  
> really expected crap, but got this instead.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/W2011/fl/pointsettia+2x-8901.jpg.html
> by all means, view full size to be amazed.  For $99, I cannot  
> believe it.  Maybe it helps having it backing up such a high quality  
> lens.  I am going to try it out on some of my Nikon zooms to see  
> what happens.
>
> OOPS. and I just noticed I misspelled poinsettia on the file name.   
> Oh well.  I?m retired.
>
> In the mean time, a Merry Christmas to all and may Santa bring you  
> some great Leica equipment.
>
> Comments and criticism welcome.
>
> Aram
>
>
>
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