Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice work, John. Lluis and Nathan will have to start looking over their shoulders. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Beeching" <johnbeeching at gmail.com> To: "LeicaUsersGroup" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: [Leica] digital apple > Dear All, > > At the end of last month I was in Puerto Rico for a few days - to visit > our > field-trials there and hold an annual meeting. As these things tend to be > rather hectic I did not expect any time for anything interesting and so > only > took the G10 from the lab to get some pictures of the plants. However, on > the way back on Sunday I had a 9 hour wait between flights at Newark. So, > I > took the train to New York and spent some hours in and had lunch at the > MoMA. Afterwards I strolled back to Penn Station to catch my flight back > to > Bristol. As you know I'm a confirmed film man, but I thought I'd give the > G10 a whirl. Here are a few of the results: > http://johnbeeching.com/apple/album/index.html > You will note, some se?oritas for Lluis! > On the plus side, it is silent. But I don't like the viewfinder or the > funny little screen at the back. The lack of ready control over it was > also > frustrating, as are the blown highlights. But I wasn't totally > dissatisfied > with the results; however, I'm happy to be back to my Leica and Tri-X! > > Normally the G10 is screwed onto a gel documentation set up to photgraph > ethidium bromide-stained DNA gels. Perhaps I should have handled it with > latex gloves! > > John > > -- > John Beeching > http://johnbeeching.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >