Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What the heck is a Sepia file? A greyscale file soaked in old coffee grinds? ...or Lapsang Souchong tea? I guess it would have to have more info per bit than a greyscale file. But is it just an RGB file with all the B bleached out? I'd love it if it were just a plain vanilla greyscale bit with an added selenium electron tacked on. But what do I want? Egg in my beer!? French Vanilla BEAN with little specs in it! I know tertiary colors involve all three primary colors and that's how you get all those great browns! Or any brown for that matter. Even that purple selenium brown. I got a letter from Roger Horn yesterday. I'm sure I was the only one to get a letter just like this so I'll clue everyone else on the list on it. It was addressed to me personally and signed in red dot blood. ....As the leaves turn different colors its time to put color Lexar's in our digital cameras.... (no it didn't say that) This will mean I'll squeeze less on a roll. All those extra RGB bits.... If you get a Digilux 2 they are going to give you a free spare battery and a SF24D flash for a combined total of $440 USD. In the form of food stamps. Enclosed in a full color sheet illustrated the camera with free spare battery and a SF24D flash... The battery appears to be an extender for the flash to help get rid of red eye. Which gives me ideas. Does someone make a deflector thingie so the SF24D can be aimed upward for bounce flash? The built in flash on the Digilux 2 can be aimed upward for bounce flash...a one of a kind feature for a point and shoot digital or film even. If they still make those. I've been doing lots of flash with bounce flash. You'd never think these shots were hand held with an effective shutter speed of 1/5000 of a second and an effective ASA ISO of 200! Looks like room light but with the yellow taken out. Crisp crisp crisp! You'd think bouncing a GN 20 flash off a ceiling would not work unless that ceiling was highly reflective like those cheesy projector screens. Those mushy textureized ceilings you find in model rooms? What if they had an super extra heaping of quartz in them or whatever is on those projector screens? Then any room in your house could be ideal for bounce flash! Plus give you that motel room feeling. Just SPRAY THE STUFF ON! With a big hose. Real thick too to in effect make the ceiling lower. Its a shame there is not a real extendo platform for a flash on the hotshoe of the Digilux 2 with a hinge on it so that SF24D can be aimed upward and bounce flashed. Especially off my newly quartz mush sprayed ceilings. The SF24D gives you two more stops of power over the one built into the camera. Which is already supposedly strong enough to bounce off a dull flat white ceiling. At ASA 100! I'm sure HAMA or one of those companies must make one. But I cant see why a little flash with a design like that can't have it's built in reflector able to be hinged upward for bounce flash. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/