Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi,yesterday was a nice day here with promised snow but some unexpected sunshine.Got some old Kodak E10vs from a friend and decided to try again with the rocketlauncher . A few weeks ago i tried with a 400 6.8 telyt and found that a delight to use. The lens is very light so you can move it around quickly and the shoulder stock adds a lot of stability.One has to be carefull not to hit aanyone with it in a crowd though because all together the assembly is a bit long. So i managed some action shots like these which you might have seen allready http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/folder-4311.html not formula 1 i know but still moving enough for a beginner . Yesterday with it,s bigger sister proved more difficult first the angle of view of a 560 .It,s a lot narrower then your vision so you really have to look for things which are either small or very far away not easy. Then it,s heavier and bigger then the 400 so more difficult to hand hold. With the changing light the lowest i went was 1/90 and then sometimes the result is a bit soft like in these http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43550.html still i like the effect of isolating small statues from the ugly scenes behind them and i tried some more with better light http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43557.html An obvious advantage of the lens is that while people near you tend to wonder whether to call the police and report a terrorist with a stinger people far away dont know you are there so i had a glimpse at the first mini(skirt) of the season without being hit by the owners handbag which was a big on the large side http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43555.html An obvious target is birds ,afterall it was Douglas Herrs nice site at http://www.wildlightphoto.com and http://www.wildlightphoto.com/leica/ that got me into this Leica adventure Well i was unable to find a bird willing enough to pose for me and this http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43548.html was the best i could do. Maybe i better take up fishing. Anothet advantage is that one can take pictures of things you dont want to be seen taking pictures of like http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43561.html really nobody sees it to give a better idea what the lens more or lens can do at low shutter speeds is this http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43556.html and a crop of it at http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/image-43552.html well the rest of the roll is here http://www.leica-gallery.net/apekop/folder-4429.html hope you didn,t mind the long post simon - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html