[Leica] [img] off of the shelf and into the sky

[leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG)]

First they said you could never get a monkey into a balloon. Then they said 
you could never train him to take a photo. They they said there's no way 
he'd be able to breathe at 33,000 feet. And to this I've always said "two 
out of three ain't bad."

Arial photography of White Sands, New Mexico. I'm pleased with the small 
size, unobtrusiveness, and quiet shutter of this camera. Geography rendered 
nicely.

  http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/ileica-newmexico-1200.jpg

Of course they said "you should never push tri-x to 1600. As you can see, 
grain is still a (big) factor. You can see a 4 megabyte full resolution 
image here:

  http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/ileica-newmexico-full.jpg

but I've no doubt the engineers at Solms* will be working hard to fix that.

Thanks for checking it out. C&C always welcome.


Kyle


*Cupertino