[Leica] At the Hong Kong Apple Store

[Richard Man]

Ah, Central is made for panoramic :-)

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:44 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Went along to the Apple Store in IFC II Central this morning to buy a new
> portable hard drive to save all the stored data
> for the clean up scheduled tomorrow at the Genius Bar to rectify my
> Macbook Pro and Esther's I Pad after my
> first Hack Attack. Had one of the Genii back up both machines and while
> waiting took the attached pano:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/2PanFerrisTent.jpg.html
> >
>
> It shows the reclaimed land in front of IFC II which has been transformed
> into a ferris wheel site (a la London Eye)
> and the tents of a Cirque du Soleil type show with horses in the
> performance. It is a two panel hand held pano stitched together in CS6
> and processed with same. As you can see the Southwest monsoon has blown in
> and it is now getting hot and very humid in HK.
>
> The second picture is Lao Yao. He was born in Hong Kong in 1939 - so is
> now 75 years old. In 1943 when the US bombing intensified in the attempt to
> dislodge the occupying Japanese Mr Yao and his family fled to China. He was
> raised there taking primary, secondary and university studies. Later he
> moved back to Hong Kong.
> We talked while each of our computers was being repaired. He asked me what
> countries I preferred and I asked him his choices. He said, surprisingly,
> Russia, Estonia and Latvia. Then it came out that in addition to speaking
> Cantonese (his maternal language), studying in Mandarin, he had learned
> Russian because in his time Russia and China were friends. He learned his
> fluent English while working in Hong Kong.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/5357C.jpg.html>
>
> In deference to Dr. Ted I have processed Lao Yao's photo into B&W. An
> interesting old fellow.
>
> The 27mm f2.8 Fuji Pancake lens turns the XT 1 into an innocuous looking
> point and shoot and it is sharp at f5.6 - f8.0 out to the corners and fast
> focusing and unobtrusive.
> Glad I got it.
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard
>
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