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Subject: [Leica] Scaling Half Dome on the cables
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:02:11 +0200
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Nuts.

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> No, I'm not insane, I didn't do that. My knee would explode and I just 
> don't think climbing a 45 degree slope sounds like a lot of fun to me. And 
> besides a hand-full of people have fallen this year. None survived.
> 
> However, we were parked at Olmsted Point looking across at Half Dome. I 
> had hoped to get there a little earlier in the morning but I got engrossed 
> in documenting Tioga Pass so the sun was a bit high and there was a touch 
> of haze in the air.
> 
> I mounted the 560 tele I bought from Doug Herr on an industrial-strength 
> fluid-head tripod, locked it down and photographed Half Dome. As I was 
> packing up a cluster of about a dozen Porches drove up and I heard one of 
> the drives saying that the cables that run up to the top of Half Dome are 
> on the left face as viewed from this perspective.
> 
> Cool, I thought to myself, I should look when I get home. Which I did.
> 
> <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/19446304_NvM63K#1524435664_gDBQqpH>
> 
> This is a 1:1 crop sharpened and adjusted in Lightroom. You can make out 
> the figures and even the cable stays and perhaps a cable in one location. 
> Not too shabby! It's still difficult to focus but I think this is just 
> about spot-on.
> 
> Comments welcome, of course.
> 
> Adam Bridge
> 
> 
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