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Subject: [Leica] Mejiro (Japanese white-eye)
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:13:30 -0800
References: <D00A907C-7211-49B2-AE04-8EF8664C81F0@yahoo.co.uk>

Peter Cheyne  showed:
Subject: [Leica] Mejiro (Japanese white-eye)


> We had some snow in Kyushu this morning, and we put some fruit out for  
> the birds.  The mejiro love oranges!
> 
> All taken with an M8 and a 90 Summicron (Canadian).  Straight out of  
> camera the images are often low-contrast and pastel-coloured, which  
> sometimes works nicely.  These have all been tweaked a touch in  
> saturation and contrast.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157625712044626/show/<,,,

Hi Peter,
Well done! Certainly with a 90 mm lens! But then people rarely comment on 
using this particular 90mm that was produced in the Leica plant, Midland,  
CANADA. Mine cuts images like a new razor blade sharpness as we see so does 
yours.

cheers,
ted


In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] Mejiro (Japanese white-eye))