[Leica] TulipMagnolia - front yard - Boston

[jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Don:

I'm about 8 miles NNE of Boston.  No flowers here yet, not even the 
forsythia has appeared let alone azaleas... all that hot air down in 
BD's neighborhood must be the reason that those Magnolias have 
blossomed. :-)

But... all the ice has finally melted and my ebay bought, 14mm DA lens 
arrived a few days ago, here's a few "tryout" shots taken with it on the 
Pentax isDS, it's about equivalent to a 21mm on 35mm format:
http://www.hemenway.com/14mm/

Still, I think that I like my Leica 19mm on the R8 a tiny bit better:
http://www.hemenway.com/Castle_in_Maine/

Jim



Don Dory wrote:

> 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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