Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As follow-up to my e-mail, here is a photo of the mouth of the Eel River just south of Eureka, CA, not far from the power plant I was photographing. It was taken on Fuji RMS 100/1000 yesterday with the Hasselblad, but I'll try to keep the flight on topic by posting a Leica aerial sometime soon! http://www.humboldt1.com/~datamaster/Eel%20River.jpg Scale is about 7000 feet from edge to edge. Interesting fact about the Eel - In the winter during heavy flooding, it carries as heavy a silt load as the Mississippi. > > In fact, I just finished three rolls of Fuji RMS 100/1000 about 10 minutes > ago. It was aerial shots taken today of the local electrical power plant > property from 12,700 feet with the Hasselblad ELM and fantastic 100/3.5 > lens. We could have shot from a lower altitude with the 80mm, but, man, I > love that 100! > > It was an absolutely crystal clear day along the coast, so I put some Ektar > 25 in the Leica M6 and shot panoramics from on high with the 35mm > Summicron - 1/500th between f2 and f2.8. Gotta love that Leica glass wide > open! Just remember not to bump the focus scale off of infinity. Those old > Leica lenses with a locking tab at infinity would be handy for aerial > photography. > > Regards, > Gary Todoroff > Tree