[Leica] IMG: Garden portrait

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

A pic is worth a thousand words; post a pic of the focusing mech. please!
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 6:28:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Garden portrait

Thank you everyone for looking.  This was fun to try out and the focus was
pretty easy as there is an angled magnifier that screws into the eyepiece.
THe parallax correction is excellent also. I was just shooting some flowers
and trying it out. This was shot on a tripod for the best quality. I had to
recompose (so the tail went out of focus a little) after the subject
expressed its displeasure by making a very large deposit on the leaf! I
think that it had poodle bones in it.
Focus distance was about half a metre and this is a crop of course. This is
about one quarter of the original pixels wide and the view you see is at
actual pixels level (not downsampled). So the magnification is effectively
240ppi divided by 90~100ppi screen resolution
The grasshopper is about 100mm long in the body (~4 inches for our US
friends)

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 11 May 2010 22:58, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:

> I have to ask, how is this possible?  First, of course, it's an amazing,
> arresting image.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I've never done any sort of macro before.
> Outside of a visoflex, how can you get this close to something and focus?
> Inquiring minds need to know!
>
> Thanks,
> -rei
>
>
>
> On 05/11/2010 12:34 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> You're right, rangefinders can't do close ups.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>
>>
>> On 11 May 2010 14:33, Vince Passaro<passaro.vince at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Send it back. That's not close enough.
>>> V
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Hopkinson<hopsternew at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Today I received a macro adapter for my Macro Elmar 90 and tried it out
>>>>
>>>>
>>> on
>>>
>>>
>>>> my M9 (ISO 800 100% crop).
>>>> No Valanga Irregularis were harmed in the making of this portrait
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hoppyman/2/ghcu.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>>
>>>>
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