Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bill (and other Leica Folks), I would love to post a few of the better shots, but I need to locate a slide scanner (I was shooting Velvia). We have a flatbed scanner here at work that I've used in the past but I need to make some inquiries about getting transparencies digitized. I was VERY pleased with the results. Since the light was constantly changing as the sun went down I was bracketing like a fiend (1/10, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 sec; all at f8). Out of the roll of 36, I'd say that 5 were stunners (good depth of color in the sky, lights in the buildings and bridge, and some foreground detail). I did three shots of the moon (also with 400 Telyt). The illuminated side was overexposed, but the "dark" side showed nice "earth glow". You could easily see craters on the limn. In one shot a plane was passing real close to the moon and I opened the shutter for 5 seconds as it passed the moon. The shot was kind of interesting; the lights gave four long streaks past the moon which started out a teeny bit wiggly and then became straight. Even though I depressed the dual cable release in two phases (push to raise the mirror, wait a moment and the push the rest of the way to fire the shutter) there was still a tiny bit of movement of the camera/lens/tripod. I'll work on locating a scanner. Is the best format a JPEG? Do I need to encode it or anything before attaching? All the Best, Corey Levenson