[Leica] Push pins yesterday with 55 3.5 Micro with tiny turl

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

http://tinyurl.com/bo36syo

Thanks Rabs!

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:23:49 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Push pins yesterday with 55 3.5 Micro
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/thisyear/120710_163620.jpg.html
> 7/10/12, 4:36:20 PM, Push Pins in box, 55mm 3.5 Micro Nikor
> 
> Yesterday I was noticing how nice this box of push pins looked and I was
> able to position a quartz desk light inches from it so I was able to stop
> down to f16 @ 100th of a second and really do it justice with no high speed
> flash. The iso was auto set at 4500 for this combination.
> 
> I shot a few at f8 and 11 with the light positioned at other angles but it
> was this last shot when I pulled back a few inches that seemed the most
> clear and interesting. I cropped about 10% with the image set to 1200 x 800
> pixels as is my default.
> 
> Almost forgot to mention that although the shot appeared to be a total
> monochrome from the get go I found myself wanting to convert it to
> monochrome myself in ACR.  I gave it  a slight tint in the shadows as I 
> will
> tend to do. This almost seemed to restore its original RGB full color look
> only cleaner.
> 
> I got my much heavier and bigger 60 macro AF from Portland a few months ago
> but it was not on my camera at the moment so I used this quite old and much
> more compact and lighter version which is the classic 55mm.... Right out of
> my camera bag.  Not the 2.8 but the even older 3.5. The 60 goes to 1:1 and
> would have grabbed about three pushpins at that setting! I'm sure the lens
> is optically superior and does not need cleaning for sure but its one of 
> the
> heavier lenes in my arsenal. The 55 is one of the lighter.
> 
> 
> 
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
> 
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