Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] Chennai Sangamam
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:00:55 +0530
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Clayton, Jim, Montie, Michiel, Douglas, Philippe, Luis , John,

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Montie, I process my photographs a bit crisp - it is required and tends to
work better that way when I print. The problem is I do not sharpen
specifically for the net, and sometimes the jpg conversion and the site
adjustments (especially on commercial sites like Flickr) get a bit out of
hand!

Philippe, No they are both the Nikon versions, first generation autofocus, I
have had them since the early 1990s - very good lenses indeed except that
autofocus is a bit slow by today's standards. They are an unbelievably good
bang for the buck even now - they cost around US$350 each. The only Leica R
lens I had Leitaxed is the 100 mm APO-Macro-Elmarit. I believe that Nikon
lenses are more than good enough for me, and I actually like autofocus and
VR and all that jazz. I got the 100mm done mainly because it is a
sensational lens, and autofocus is really not much use for macro.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:

> Jayanand,
>
> Very nice, one can almost hear the music.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
> On 1/15/2011 9:26 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
>> Chennai Sangamam is a festival held every year to celebrate the language
>> and
>> culture of the southern state of Tamil Nadu (to which I belong to) over
>> four
>> days during the harvest festival of Pongal in January. It is free, and is
>> held in half a dozen public areas (parks or beaches) across the city. Here
>> are a few photographs taken over the last couple of days at a park close
>> to
>> my house. I went back to primes after a long time as I needed fast lenses
>> -
>> all photographs either taken with a Nikon D700 with either the 50mm f1.4
>> or
>> 85mm f1.8 (both rather old in the tooth), depending on how close I could
>> get
>> to the stage - these events draw pretty big crowds!
>>
>> Folk Dance:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0054-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0303-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> Classical Vocal - Male:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0143-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0160-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> Classical Fusion Dance:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0318-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110114_0331-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> Classical Vocal - Female:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110115_0430-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110115_0442.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/ChennaiS2011_20110115_0480.jpg.html
>>
>> C&C, as ever, welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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