[Leica] IMG Don's PAW Week 10 Las Vegas with no glitz

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

Very enjoyable: we are drawn along with your joy ;-) I'm off to  
Tasmania now with film and the M8 : should be fun

Cheers
On 15/03/2007, at 9:44, Luis Ripoll wrote:

> Don, Your work is really excellent, I liked particularly one of your
> "specialities" the man sleeping in the airport. I think that when  
> you have
> an M8 on your hands it is very probable you become enthousiastic  
> shooting
> and shooting, the only point I'm surprised is when I enlarge at  
> full size
> these pictures I see a lot of grain, well noise, even on your  
> pictures at
> relatively low speed (ISO640), is this normal?.
>
> I'm sorry for my comment, I'm educated on a maybe too much  
> classical...and
> ancient education, when I was a young man we shot usually at 18DIN  
> (50ASA),
> when the 21DIN (100ASA) becomes more popular I still remember my  
> father
> saying "this is 21 DIN"..., and 400 ASA (27DIN) was something  
> extraordinary,
> I suppose that many old HCB and others was shoot with speeds  
> between 50ASA
> and 100ASA, maybe with a digital camera - I have no experience - is  
> too easy
> work at great speeds, maybe because we haven't any more the use to  
> see the
> pictures enlarged on a darkroom at 24 x 30 cm or so...and we only  
> see them
> on our monitors...
>
> I would appreciate your opinion, if one day I go to an M8, this  
> aspect would
> be a certain handicap for me.
>
> Saludos cordiales
> Luis
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En  
> nombre de
> Don Dory
> Enviado el: mi?rcoles, 14 de marzo de 2007 2:26
> Para: Leica Users Group
> Asunto: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW Week 10 Las Vegas with no glitz
>
> Hi Gang,
> Last week was an interesting week as I spent the whole time in LV  
> but really
> didn't find the city very interesting.  Could be the security at  
> the Wynn
> running me off.  Anyway, let's start with the beginning of the trip  
> in the
> airport.  I found this kind soul sleeping through several flights  
> coming and
> going out of this gate.  It is a really long short story about why  
> I spent
> so much time at this gate:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10a.jpg.html
>
> This next one was from Zabrowski Point in Death Valley with really bad
> light.  You do what you can.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10b.jpg.html
>
> Actually among the sand in Death Valley.  If you ever go, make it  
> to the
> sand at daybreak as the peoples tracks will really mess up your  
> shots or you
> will have to walk a long way over loose sand to find a clean sandbox:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10c.jpg.html
>
> This is the first decent light I had all day in Death Valley:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10d.jpg.html
>
> What can I say, I like abstract designs.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10e.jpg.html
>
> This gent was overly optimistic.  Chatting up a model when her  
> shift doesn't
> end for five more hours.  Trust me, her feet will hurt more than  
> any desire
> for dinner or a drink.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10f.jpg.html
>
> This last one is a demonstration of why you should always have a  
> camera.
> Medium escalator, notice a lot of commotion, look down, think it is an
> impersonator, realize it isn't, turn the camera on, jam a focus and  
> click.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/PAW+2007/PAW+Week 
> +10/PAW+
> week10g.jpg.html
>
> Enjoy the evidence of spring if you are Northern, and glory in the  
> end of
> summer and the first twinges of fall in the South.  The M8 is just  
> the bomb,
> 700+ frames in a week when most of the time was training or seeing the
> 700+ next
> big thing.  IR is a breeze.
>
> If the price is doable, get in line and get one.  I've been on this  
> list
> quite a while now and this is the first time I have been so  
> enthusiastic
> about hard goods.  I am sorry about the length of the PAW but it is  
> such a
> blast.
>
>
> --
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
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