Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] I'm Back - Panos from Europe
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 03:47:55 2008

Howard,

Nice photos, like the alter shot but all are well done.  Glad to see you 
made it back OK.  We leave for the US on Saturday, but it will be another 2 
weeks before we get back home in Iowa.  

Gene

-------------- Original message from mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>: 
-------------- 


> very nice set howard 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Howard Cummer 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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> 
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------- 
> regards, mehrdad 
> 
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