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Subject: [Leica] Night in Yosemite
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:56:02 -0500
References: <BLU173-DS12BB7ECB826E2A0F06553AB83F0@phx.gbl> <AA021181-E46F-4ABA-AAE2-83D284504E69@frozenlight.eu> <6EmU1o02E0AFV7C01EmWt9>

Excellent images all.  One of the few frustrations with the Fuji X is 
that the lenses will focus past infinity (I have the 14, 35 and 60).

Ken

On 5/25/2014 9:48 AM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> It does have manual focus.  The problem is that the light is so low 
> there is really not much to focus on except a star.  That is what I 
> do, using live view and 10x magnification. Hard to find one of those 
> little suckers at times.  But with the Leica lens, with its hard 
> infinity focus, you just crank the lens out to the infinity stop and 
> you are good to go.  Do the Fuji lenses have a hard infinity stop?  Do 
> their zoom lenses hold their focus when zoomed in manual focus mode?
>
> Aram
>
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> From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:48 PM
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Night in Yosemite
>
>> Beautiful, especially the first two. I am surprised your DSLR does 
>> not have manual focus, like my Fuji X-Pro 1.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>
>> YNWA
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>> On May 22, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
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>>> Our first night in Yosemite was 3 days before the full moon.  We 
>>> decided to try some night shots with the moon lighting up the cliffs 
>>> and see what happened.  Here are my attempts.
>>>
>>> First stop was Valley View.  I have never seen night shots from 
>>> there. View Large.  Can you see the climbers on El Capitain?
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Valley+View-0423-Edit.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> Then on to Tunnel View:  You can also see the climbers.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Tunnel+View-0432-Edit.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Tunnel+View-0437.jpg.html
>>>
>>> We then headed down to Swinging Bridge
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Swinging+Bridge-0442-Edit.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> The long 30 second exposure allowed the capture of a pretty nice 
>>> reflection.
>>>
>>> Last stop, Sentinel Bridge
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/y/n/Sentinel+Bridge-0452.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> All these except for Valley View, were with the Leica 35-70. All 
>>> shots at F-4 with 30 second exposure at ISO 800.
>>>
>>> More to come of the moonbows with the full moon.
>>>
>>>
>>> Some technical  info:  Focusing is a pain with a modern DSLR lens.  
>>> You cannot just dial it to infinity and take the picture.  There is 
>>> no infinity stop.  You have to sight a star in live view and then 
>>> try to focus on it while looking at it magnified 10x on the view 
>>> screen.  And if you have a zoom, at least the zooms I have (16-35/4 
>>> , 24-120/4  and 70-200/4 Nikkors) or the three my father-in-law has 
>>> (24-85, 18-35 and 70-300 Nikkors) you have to do this at the focal 
>>> length you are using, because if you change FL, the focus changes.  
>>> So, if I can get by with a range of 35-70, which fortunately I can, 
>>> I use the great Leica 35-70/4 zoom.  No focus problems....  Crank it 
>>> to infinity and go for it.  No zoom problems.  All FL's are in focus 
>>> as you change the zoom.  And the added bonus, wide open it is so 
>>> much sharper than any of the Nikkor zooms.
>>>
>>>
>>> Comments welcome.
>>>
>>> Aram
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Aram Langhans
>>> (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
>>> & Unemployed photographer
>>>
>>> "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin 
>>> himself would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
>>>
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Replies: Reply from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Night in Yosemite)
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