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Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:35:21 -0400

Orphaned gear is one of my favorite things about photography.
To re discover a piece of gear. And be glad I didn't sell it off.
And realize what a choice thing it is and what it can do for me.
This week for me it was the 105 2.5 Nikkor.
"why not put the 2.5 on my camera?" I thought. It was at the bottom of the
lens drawer  way in the back.

That fact that when I put a 105 on my camera and its a 105 not a 157.5 is a
boom for it. When I shoot with it its really it! That means I really use
that stuff more its not in storage. Though not this particular optic so much
until now.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
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: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:56:48 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
> 
> Thanks again.  Made with my "orphaned" Elmarit-R 28mm, which has been
> overlooked for a while.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
> 
> 
>> And love the photo as much as the plane if not more so.
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> 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: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:43:33 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Mark.  They seemed proud of it.
>>> 
>>> And the prop was turning at idle, but, at 1/1250 sec, you can hardly tell
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:23 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> LOVE that red airplane!
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Zenith+71.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>> Photography
>>>> 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: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:03:45 -0500
>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Cc: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>>>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the Airport - Again
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a Leica Elmarit-R 28mm that I purchased as a "normal" lens for
>>>>> my
>>>>> 4/3
>>>>> bodies, but found it very difficult to focus.  I took it to the airport
>>>>> on the
>>>>> E-1, set up to zone focus and use as a point and shoot.  Most of these
>>>>> images
>>>>> were made that way, though some were manually focused.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sometimes, things just catch your attention, like these shadows:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Shadows+68.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interesting forms are added to airplanes in order to increase
>>>>> efficiency:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Winglet+64.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> In these modern times, the Sunday drive with the wife can take on a
>>>>> different
>>>>> form:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Zenith+71.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> The favorite noisemaker of every airshow is the venerable North
>>>>> American
>>>>> AT-6
>>>>> or SNJ:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/AT-6+74.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Most people recognize the powerplant of that old workhorse, the DC-3:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/DC-3+55.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sometimes old birds just roost or rest together:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old+Birds+50.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looking at these images, I think I will try this more often.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> 
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