Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] Photos: Western Yolo County Critters
From: abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon May 31 13:40:11 2004

On Monday, May 31, 2004 Doug Herr thoughtfully wrote:

>
>Were these scanned with Vuescan?  I find that I often have to increase
>saturation somewhat to get a vuescan-scanned file to match the original
>slide.  These seem to be low saturation.
>
>I'm envious of your meadowlarks.  Keep it up.
>

Wow - thank you for the kind words, Doug.

These images were scanned with Nikon's scanning software for the LS4000. I
haven't tried scanning them with VueScan. I'll probably give that a try when I
have a few moments.

Part of the trouble lies with these being somewhat over-exposed negatives. I
most definately have to add that 3rd cam to the lens.

And you're right about the lack of depth of field. I very deliberately stopped
way down to get as much of the wheat field in focus as possible in the blackbird
photo. THEY weren't holding still very well either.

Earlier in the day we encountered a flock of wild turkeys and not-so-wild
peacocks in an orchard along with two deer - all enjoying the shade on the warm
late-spring day.

Then we passed a single doe in another orchard laying in the shade. I've gone a
long time without seeing either of these.

And lastly we saw several cock ring-necked pheasants but they were so wary that
there was no time to even lift the camera before they had vanished into the tall
grasses. That brilliant red head sure is a marker though!

Best regards,

Adam


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