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Subject: [Leica] I'm Back - Panos from Europe
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Sat Oct 25 21:31:01 2008
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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
>
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