Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] Happy Thanksgiving, a new camera
From: pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:03:31 -0800

LUG:  I've been mostly away from the list for a couple of weeks due to 
work, rehearsals, and life.  I hope everyone who celebrates it had a 
wonderful Thanksgiving. For you Canadians, you always were ahead of us 
in certain things.  And the rest of you, I hope you had a great day anyway!

My birthday was Friday, so we celebrated it on Thursday night with our 
Thanksgiving guests.  My birthday present was an Olympus OM-D. For 
several years a Panasonic G1 has been my "other" camera after my M8.  
The OM-D seemed to check all the boxes I wanted, and the drastically 
improved sensor made it a worthwhile upgrade.

So I am now learning the OM-D's somewhat daunting, program-your-own user 
interface.  First results, with the little Panny 20/1.7 (40mm 
equivalent), have been very promising.

My very first shot, a self-portrait in my bathroom mirror, turned out 
quite nicely, especially when converted to B&W.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/8198764512/in/photostream>

The world's funniest Border Terrier doing her thing:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/8213422576/in/photostream/>

Our friend Laurie carves her pumpkin pie. Somebody clearly wants some.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220020.jpg.html>

Our friend Carl took this one of me with my camera. Face detection works.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220029+2.jpg.html>

--Peter


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