Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/10

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Subject: [Leica] Contribution to the bleeping flower fixation - :-) - TulipMagnolia - front yard - Boston
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Apr 10 10:32:35 2005

I knew that spring had come to Boston!  Get out more, enjoy the
extravagance of nature this time of year.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of B. D. Colen
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:52 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: [Leica] Contribution to the bleeping flower fixation - :-) -
TulipMagnolia - front yard - Boston

http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Blossom

http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Blossoms

Shot with the Olympus E-1 -"the Barnack camera for the digital era?"*-
matrix metering, 100 iso, 14-54 f2.8-3.5 Zuiko digital zoom (28-108).

*Erwin Puts, 9 April, 2005. 

B. D. 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Douglas Sharp
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:34 AM
To: rolleiusers@yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; MUG
Subject: [Leica] Hyacinths,Creeping Phlox, Rosemary.........


Some more macro shots of mostly very small flowers, all currently 
flowering in the back garden.

I'm gradually getting the impression that Yashica managed to produce an 
exceptional lens when they built the ML 2,8/55mm macro.  I can see no 
real difference between it and the Macro-Elmarit 4/100mm when it comes 
to getting in really close. The extra stop and the shorter focal length 
is also a great help on a Canon 20D.


The Rosemary, Almond Blossom  and Muscari flowers were all taken with 
the Yashica,
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/MG_1327_edited_2_copy_edited_1
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/MG_1264_edited_2_copy_edited_1
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/MG_1307_Full_cropped_edited_3

all the others with Leica.

For an overview : http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150?page=1
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150?page=2

Technical stuff : Canon 20D + Leica and Yashica macro lenses, on camera 
flash for a couple of the Rosemary shots, otherwise daylight (partially 
diffused through an old white T-shirt, a light tablet (slide viewer) 
from  below and a blue LED flashlight for some of the highlights on a 
couple of shots.

White backgrounds enhanced with PS-Elements 3.0, noise reduction with 
Neat Image, sharpening with Focus Magic.

Comments are more than welcome.

cheers
Douglas

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Replies: Reply from jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] TulipMagnolia - front yard - Boston)
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