Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thought that was a private message. Glad I didn't swear or harshly criticize things as I normally do when I'm at a 1:1 level. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:38:20 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] three in a row > > I got my x wife an D lux 3 right before my money ran out in 2006 or 7. I > wish I'd gotten one for me as well. She came out here to NY from Portland > Oregon and we shot the Soho facades in 2007 after I'd been here for a year > for a project in Portland she's an engineer. Here she is (enclosed) with > her > camera doing that (in square format and monochrome.) She used the full wide > format those days a lot but she may have gone to 2/3 and then again I'm > sure > she's doing much or most with her cell which is a blueberry or blackberry. > > I've been working a lot with a panoramic format for my cover shots for my > Facebook thing which is about the same as the one the Xpan uses. Feel free > to friend me if you can find that stuff the format for cover shots is > 315x851 pixels. But I default with all my other work with 1200 pixels on > the > wide side. So I go 444x1200 with hundreds of shots and upload them as a > different cover a day. My favorite format is 1/2 which for me is 600x1200 > pixels. But I'm finding 444 works for many images I'd already shot at 2/3. > If this keeps going I'll be saving for an Xpan or something which resembles > it. > > My Hasselblad is poised at my bedside on a little plastic case filled with > sheet music with an A12 120 back on it and a 100 3.5 planar with a short > shade. I'll be going to B&H today to get some film for it. Where I'm going > to with this is squares. The world seems to have discovered them. Leica did > with a postal Leica which is collectors item. I always wanted a Robot. > Another camera I have out and handy and ready to get going again again > after > half a decade is my Rolleiflex. I hope I have little trouble getting my > Epson flatbed going again on my right on the little table I'm taking my > tuner out ny is a place where people use headphones for everything. If I > ever entertain I'll worry about it. I've been here on Riverside Drive and W > 80th for 4 years now. > > > Mark William Rabiner Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Bharani Padmanabhan <scleroplex at gmail.com> Reply-To: Leica Users >> Group >> <lug at leica-users.org> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:22:57 -0400 To: Leica >> Users >> Group <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] three in a row >> >> dear mark, i am so happy you think they are good. apologies for the tardy >> reply. i have but one camera, a 5-year old D-LUX 3. most of my photos are >> taken with it. on occasion i use the iPhone, on sunny days. >> >> when i first got the D-LUX 3 i shot mostly in 16:9 but for the past 2 >> years >> for some reason I've been composing and cropping most of the shots into a >> square. it's probably because i like the pictures taken by my friend gary >> gumanow so much. he shoots with an M6 but the square ones are from his >> Rolleiflex or SWC. >> >> I've never been into Instagram or hipstamatic as i don't like the iPhone >> camera much. when talking about the iPhone most people talk about the >> lens or >> the sensor, but when actually trying to get a shot neither of those is >> that >> important. the user interface stinks for street photography. by the time >> the >> phone is ready the shot is long gone. :-) bharani >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:29:57 -0400 From: Mark Rabiner >> <mark at rabinergroup.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] three in a row To: Leica >> Users >> Group <lug at leica-users.org> Message-ID: >> <CC4860A5.221CA%mark at rabinergroup.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> You're getting great shots! Whets with the square format which camera are >> you >> using? >> >> Mark William Rabiner Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >>> From: Bharani Padmanabhan <scleroplex at gmail.com> Reply-To: Leica >>> Users Group >>> <lug at leica-users.org> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 18:18:35 -0400 To: Leica >>> Users >>> Group <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] three in a row >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1720703+three+in+a+row >>> .jpg.html >>> >>> :-) bharani >>> >>> _______________________________________________ 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