[Leica] Panorama

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Philippe,
Thanks for looking - these are not RAW shots they are 'Fine" quality JPGs.
Lightroom (3.5) does not support this camera's RAW format as yet, so I have
not started shooting RAW (neither has Howard as far as I know). The last
thing I need is yet another RAW conversion program on my desktop! (-:

For any style or genre of photography, which does not require lenses the
size of bazookas, this would be a good choice. In case you are desirous of
using Leica M lenses, you would also have to check whether the viewfinder
is good enough for critical manual focusing - by and large, I am an
autofocus user, so this is not an essential requirement as far as I am
concerned.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM, <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:

> Very nice indeed - I'd be curious to know how the raws behave when you
> fiddle with them, any better/worse than the D700?
> I was in the shop last Saturday but they didn't have any I could try. They
> offer the full kit on order exclusively here so far which to me is a bit
> expensive for a test ... So, just curious.
> Well in truth very tempted to dump the D700 heavy weaponry after seeing
> Howard's results and yours.
>
>
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
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> Message du : 10/04/2012 09:09
> De : "Jayanand Govindaraj " <jayanand at gmail.com>
> A : "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
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> Thanks everyone for looking and commenting. I,too, think the first one of
> Semli was far better, and posted this as one more example of a beautiful
> spot within the park - it is one end of a large waterhole called
> "Adidaant".
>
> Nathan, No I have not taken many wide open, because there was no cause to
> do so in Ranthambhore, and also because I was mainly using the 18mm. I plan
> to experiment with the 60mm in the next few days, and will post some
> examples next week of that lens wide open. I generally use wide open
> settings only when I take portraits, or in low light - otherwise I
> generally stop down in most of my photography. As a matter of fact when
> shooting wildlife, I am continuously struggling with insufficient depth of
> field with long lenses most of the time.
>
> Akhil, The shots were taken hand held and later stitched together in
> Photoshop and then cropped. I do not think that Fuji has released the Leica
> M adapter as yet - in any case I do not have one, and do not really foresee
> using M lenses because the Fuji lenses, I feel, are more than good. Whether
> I get an M adapter or not will depend on the price (-: As   I mentioned in
> an earlier message, this is very close to my idea of an ideal street
> shooting kit - an autofocus rangefinder type body with 3 excellent lenses.
> The only other lens I would probably buy is something wider than 28mm - say
> a 21mm equivalent or so.
>
> Adam, You got it, because Fuji, in this camera at least, have a mode called
> "Film Simulation" and my setting was Velvia - corresponds to the Camera
> Profile setting of Vivid in Nikon.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Adam Bridge  wrote:
>
> > The colors in both of your panoramas are very vivid - I'm thinking Velvia
> > when I see them. Is this the nature of the landscape or is it the camera?
> > The greens are especially saturated.
> >
> > I don't mean this as a criticism, just asking to help me in evaluating
> the
> > images.
> >
> > Thank you for sharing the location. Fascinating.
> >
> > Sigh. I need to travel more.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> >
> > > Another panorama of another waterhole from Ranthambhore, again it is a
> > six
> > > panel panorama taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and the 18mm lens, stitched
> > > together in Photoshop CS5.5. The camera settings were 1/400s at f8 at 
> > > ISO
> > 200.
> > > Again, processing was limited to contrast adjustments and a low level
> of
> > > sharpening:
> > >
> > >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/WaterholeP.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Please see LARGE.
> > >
> > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
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