Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I should also add that on the first picture at the right edge, you can just make out the bedding of a homeless person at the edge of the building. She has been here since Nov and occasionally we gave her a little money. Just to think that the Facebook millionaires are now bidding up the house prices to an even greater height and yet even here, homeless people still exist. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/KeebleFreeFood/index.html > > > I was doing more SWC testing and noticed that there were a lot of people > up in the Keeble & Schucat "gallery" room. It turns out that they were > demo'ing and selling pre-orders for the D4 and D800/E. Not sure if it > happens in other places, but here in Palo Alto, I heard that they sold > quite a number of them. > > They also had free food and wine, so of course I stayed around and took > photos. I took Frank's advice and use the SWC as a P&S. It works quite > well. I wasn't entirely sure about the readings from my ancient L-398 meter > (in "foot-candles") but the negs do look more or less within +- 1/2 stop. I > have misplaced my high tech tiny spot meter and I need to find it soon. > > In the 3rd photo, the tiny camera on the back of that 7 billion mm > super-duper-telephoto lens was a D800. It certainly is one of the biggest > lens I have ever seen. I saw a Canon shooter once with something similar in > the Bayland. I think he was photographing the eyeball of the seagulls. > > The D4 is also impressively big and heavy. I didn't push any buttons. > > I am just glad that I have an M9 (and XPan, and now the SWC). It's hard to > get tempted by other cameras :-) > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>