Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last Saturday we had one of our rare super visibility days on the water and a knife-edge horizon. Usually, distant views show vertical smearing due to refraction. The was taken on Vineyard Sound from a point just off Woods Hole. The boats are at the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. East Chop is the point of land to the left; West Chop the one to the right. This a 100% crop with the 70-200 zoom at 200 mm from about 3.6 nautical miles off West Chop. The horizon is about 2 miles away from our position. The scene was very low contrast and the autofocus on the D300 had a hard time locking up. Manual focus wasn't much better since the lens has no infinity stop. Only two shots out of ten were properly focused. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_boating/300_8509.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/2ctkot6 C&C always welcome. Regards, Dick