Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/KeebleFreeFood/index.html I was doing more SWC testing and noticed that there were a lot of people up in the Keeble & Schucat "gallery" room. It turns out that they were demo'ing and selling pre-orders for the D4 and D800/E. Not sure if it happens in other places, but here in Palo Alto, I heard that they sold quite a number of them. They also had free food and wine, so of course I stayed around and took photos. I took Frank's advice and use the SWC as a P&S. It works quite well. I wasn't entirely sure about the readings from my ancient L-398 meter (in "foot-candles") but the negs do look more or less within +- 1/2 stop. I have misplaced my high tech tiny spot meter and I need to find it soon. In the 3rd photo, the tiny camera on the back of that 7 billion mm super-duper-telephoto lens was a D800. It certainly is one of the biggest lens I have ever seen. I saw a Canon shooter once with something similar in the Bayland. I think he was photographing the eyeball of the seagulls. The D4 is also impressively big and heavy. I didn't push any buttons. I am just glad that I have an M9 (and XPan, and now the SWC). It's hard to get tempted by other cameras :-) -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>