Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I noticed that too. Could it be caused by the fact that the cars are on a curving line? These lenses are not simple things to figure out. On 4/26/06 8:19 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote: > Thanks, BD. That was a heavy camera, too. > > I've been looking at your out of the office window view (with some > post-envy -- my office had a window onto a corridor) and it seems to my eye > there is some distortion on the left side, and along the bottom: the cars > seem oddly shaped, the bus rounding the corner is stretched and the car > following it stretched as well. Maybe because they were moving? In any case > the distortion is not unsettling... > > bill > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Glen '62 - '63 > > >> Very, very cool, Bill. Images from the days when iron men drove steel >> cars. >> ;-) >> >> >> On 4/26/06 7:54 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote: >> >>> Got out some old views of racing at Watkins Glen in 1962 or 1963. Can't >>> be >>> sure of IDs, can anyone help? >>> >>> Starting here, and the next five pix >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album303/Driver_w >>> >>> Taken with OT equipment (Miranda F with normal 50 and Craptar 135) on a >>> medium that is becoming OT, film, TriX, and I always used D76 in those >>> days. >>> The darkroom was in a former coalbin. Remember coal? >>> >>> (Ha) >>> >>> bill h, Listening to Sounds of Sebring '58 >>> >>> Comments gratefully accepted >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information