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Subject: [Leica] three in a row
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:16:02 -0400

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>
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>> 
>> 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
>>> 
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