[Leica] [OM] IMG: The Bus

[Philippe]

So long as the 8's system is Tom compliant, I won’t complain ;-)

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Philippe



> Le 7 févr. 2019 à 20:29, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> Thanks, Jim and Philippe.  The only way Tom will agree to take photos is if
> I set the camera for hyper-focal focusing so he doesn't have to focus it
> and can only point it and shoot!  I call it "putting the camera on the 8's"
> since I use f8 and the infinity symbols look like 8's.  He only has to look
> down and be sure the camera is on the 8's and, if there is enough light, he
> gets a photo that is in focus!  That means there needs to be a lot of light
> and the ISO stays on Auto since he has no idea how to set that and doesn't
> want to know.  He keeps saying, "I am not a photographer!"  I've been very
> tempted to get him a totally automatic camera but he gets enough with M240
> and the 8 system that I haven't added to our equipment load.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:17 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
> 
>> Now that is congestion!  My only suggestion to Tom would be to raise the
>> ISO to 400, for a 1/120s exposure, to help tame some of the motion blur
>> in the foreground.
>> 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> 
>> On 2/7/2019 1:05 PM, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
>>> Thanks, guys!  I've never seen worse traffic than Bangladesh and the
>> rural
>>> roads are almost non-existent!  More photos coming soon.
>>> 
>>> Here is a Dhaka street scene that Tom took with my M240:
>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168788227
>>> 
>>> I appreciate your taking a look.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:04 AM Chris Barker <ftog at threeshoes.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well done getting home safely, Tina.
>>>> 
>>>> That’s a different viewpoint of a bus, but I can imagine that most will
>>>> have damage to the exterior.  I used to live in Calcutta and Delhi and
>> it
>>>> was a similar situation there.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>>> On 7 Feb 2019, at 13:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm home!  I've downloaded all of the photos and am now starting to
>> edit
>>>>> them.  Here's the first.  Did I mention the traffic in Bangladesh??  We
>>>>> always thought the worst traffic in the world was in Tehran, Iran, but
>>>>> there is a new contender.  I have never seen worst traffic than in
>>>>> Bangladesh!  Nobody pays any attention to the street lights, the lane
>>>>> markers, or the police standing in the street waving their sticks.  The
>>>>> only traffic control is the horn which everybody blows constantly.
>> Every
>>>>> bus looks like this one:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589 <
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589>
>>>>> The buses are independently owned and make money by getting people to
>>>> their
>>>>> destination as fast as possible and loading up another bus full of
>> people
>>>>> to deliver.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is with the M240 and 24/2.8 out of the window.  I took lots of
>>>> photos
>>>>> out of the car windows since we were stuck in traffic for hours and
>> hours
>>>>> and hours every time we tried to go anywhere!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll be adding more photos to this site as I edit them and posting some
>>>> on
>>>>> FB.  Comments are greatly appreciated, always.
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