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Subject: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon Jan 22 20:25:19 2007
References: <9b678e0701211751s2bd987e8w628f6acb1cb49283@mail.gmail.com><002301c73dcd$e5d01d80$6501a8c0@asus930> <9b678e0701221733o1de89a16kdd8a7ef94d8a195a@mail.gmail.com><001201c73e8f$f1c6c6d0$6501a8c0@asus930> <45B58D1A.3070902@hemenway.com>

Jim,

There is nothing cheap looking about that image.  It is a beautiful example 
of proper use of DOF.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3


> Hopper:
>
> I shot this with the 60mm macro on a Leica SL, don't know if you can go 
> any cheaper:
>
> http://www.hemenway.com/pages/Day%20Lily.htm
>
> Jim
>
>
> G Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> Don, I think that the macro thing is starting to call to me as well. Then 
>> I start thinking about what's required to make it happen
>> with an M old way or new way. Or buy an older R (for cost) then glass for 
>> it. Then I think, be rational, to have a play I could get
>> a macro for my Nikon manual focus slr's cheaply. Then I start thinking 
>> about the Zeiss ZF Planar 100 macro, (have you seen the MTF
>> graphs for that lens!)then I realise I'm back at the second mortgage 
>> point. I think its called technolust!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Hoppy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 3
>>
>> Hoppy,
>> Thank you for the compliment.  If the demons at work give in somewhat I 
>> may
>> do an abbreviated series this year.  Last year I played around a lot with
>> bad lenses used up close and this year I might try traditional macro 
>> shots
>> with a somewhat different viewpoint.
>>
>> Don
>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>
>> On 1/21/07, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>>Don, that's a great shot of the camellia. I love the colour and the sharp
>>>droplet.
>>>Cheers
>>>Hoppy
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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