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Subject: [Leica] 2010 BOATING PESO - A Knife-Edge Horizon
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:19:53 -0400
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The "noise" is atmospheric refraction.  Can't do much about that.  

Regards, 

Dick



On Aug 09, 2010, at 2:04 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> I find the "weight" of the water and POV 
> very compelling (in the tiny image).
> 
> and the "noise" extremely unpleasant
> and totally destroying the effects mentioned above
> when viewing the larger image
> 
> which I don't understand.
> I thought the d300 held the noiseless record to date.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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