Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]very nice set howard On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Howard Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > Last night I got to sleep in my own Hong Kong bed again after 162 days. > Filling the time in retirement sometimes feels like hard work! > After Photokina wife Esther and I traveled to Italy and France. I took > along > my Novoflex pano equipment but lost the bushing that sizes the bubble level > platin from 1/2 to 3/8 so couldn't use the damn thing on the tripod that I > had brought. I just hauled all that heavy weight around from one place to > another. I used my M8 and Nikon D700 as the mood struck me - the M8 for > nights and interiors and the Nikon for just about everything else. Its > better high ISO performance compensated for the slower lenses in most > cases. > Next time (if there is a next time given what is happening to my retirement > portfolio!) I will take only one system - likely the Nikon as it is the > most > versatile. From what I saw at Photokina I may add some Zeiss lenses to the > Nikon kit if and when they are available in HK. > I have posted a few panos in a new folder in the LUG gallery. Please have a > look. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Photos+from+Europe/ > > http://tinyurl.com/5ucctl > > These were taken mostly with the M8 and the 24 Elmarit in vertical format > and then stitched together in CS2. One is taken with the Canon G9 - and a > couple with the Nikon D700 and the 50 f1.4. One problem with the M8, not > experienced with the D700, was dust spots on the sensor which showed up > when > I stopped down to increase depth of field. That required quite a bit of > spotting in Photoshop not required with the Nikon photos due to the 700's > auto cleaning feature. I have one persistent spot on the M8 sensor which is > going to require wet cleaning sometime this week. > Enjoy, > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad