Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Glad to hear you are doing better, Mark. 2.5 miles sounds like a good start. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day. > Often in ACR I'll correct the upward tilt a bit. Give it a -11. Make it > more > view camera like. > But on this one I left it. > Its shot from way down the block at 140mm which is quite longer and more > compressed in the end than I normally shoot. > Hours shooting with the 80-200 it was rarely set near 200 though. It was > almost always right near 80. And I have non zoom fast nice glass for that. > But the zoom made me feel like NY was my Oyster. So I just shot like crazy > as I walked north from Canal. I made it to 34th. 2.5 miles. > As my ass was in a sling for two months up until last week it feels pretty > good. Walking and shooting that is. > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:00:18 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day. >> >> Mark, >> >> I find this to be an interesting image. I never imagined fire escapes in >> such close proximity to one another. And, though you obviously had to >> tilt >> the camera upward, the distortion is not bad at all. A very nice job! >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:53 PM >> Subject: [Leica] Fire escapes Soho yesterday at this time of the day. >> >> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/thisyear/120711_163958.jpg.html >>> or >>> http://tinyurl.com/coanl25 >>> >>> 7/11/12, 4:39:58 PM, Soho facade, 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor >>> >>> This is a real lightweight zoom about Nikons lightest. >>> To an old timer such as myself when I think zoom I think 80-200mm. The >>> others are upstarts not to be trusted. >>> This is a compact light one they made a few decades ago then stopped. >>> It got too easy and non competitive for them to do this. They had to >>> move >>> on >>> to the 70-300's which were dumb and heavy and I got one and rarely feel >>> like >>> walking around with it. It's an ED. >>> >>> This 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor could focus a bit closer for my >>> taste. >>> But's 332.85 grams, 11.7 oz's, .7 of a pound. 3 oz's lighter than my >>> 80mm >>> 1.8 Nikkor D AF. >>> I got it around 2004 for less than a hundred bucks used from Pro Photo >>> in >>> Portland Oregon. >>> >>> This shot I'm please by the way it all came together. And it appears to >>> be >>> sharper than heck. (Sorry Erwin!) >>> >>> Fire escapes in Soho are for sure a clich?. But I think if you do a real >>> good job you're off the hook a bit. >>> >>> >>> >>> - - from my iRabs. >>> Mark Rabiner >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >