Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So long as the 8's system is Tom compliant, I won?t complain ;-) Amities Philippe > Le 7 f?vr. 2019 ? 20:29, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > Thanks, Jim and Philippe. The only way Tom will agree to take photos is if > I set the camera for hyper-focal focusing so he doesn't have to focus it > and can only point it and shoot! I call it "putting the camera on the 8's" > since I use f8 and the infinity symbols look like 8's. He only has to look > down and be sure the camera is on the 8's and, if there is enough light, he > gets a photo that is in focus! That means there needs to be a lot of light > and the ISO stays on Auto since he has no idea how to set that and doesn't > want to know. He keeps saying, "I am not a photographer!" I've been very > tempted to get him a totally automatic camera but he gets enough with M240 > and the 8 system that I haven't added to our equipment load. > > Tina > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:17 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > >> Now that is congestion! My only suggestion to Tom would be to raise the >> ISO to 400, for a 1/120s exposure, to help tame some of the motion blur >> in the foreground. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> On 2/7/2019 1:05 PM, Tina Manley via LUG wrote: >>> Thanks, guys! I've never seen worse traffic than Bangladesh and the >> rural >>> roads are almost non-existent! More photos coming soon. >>> >>> Here is a Dhaka street scene that Tom took with my M240: >>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168788227 >>> >>> I appreciate your taking a look. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:04 AM Chris Barker <ftog at threeshoes.net> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Well done getting home safely, Tina. >>>> >>>> That?s a different viewpoint of a bus, but I can imagine that most will >>>> have damage to the exterior. I used to live in Calcutta and Delhi and >> it >>>> was a similar situation there. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>>> On 7 Feb 2019, at 13:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm home! I've downloaded all of the photos and am now starting to >> edit >>>>> them. Here's the first. Did I mention the traffic in Bangladesh?? We >>>>> always thought the worst traffic in the world was in Tehran, Iran, but >>>>> there is a new contender. I have never seen worst traffic than in >>>>> Bangladesh! Nobody pays any attention to the street lights, the lane >>>>> markers, or the police standing in the street waving their sticks. The >>>>> only traffic control is the horn which everybody blows constantly. >> Every >>>>> bus looks like this one: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589 < >>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/168785589> >>>>> The buses are independently owned and make money by getting people to >>>> their >>>>> destination as fast as possible and loading up another bus full of >> people >>>>> to deliver. >>>>> >>>>> This is with the M240 and 24/2.8 out of the window. I took lots of >>>> photos >>>>> out of the car windows since we were stuck in traffic for hours and >> hours >>>>> and hours every time we tried to go anywhere! >>>>> >>>>> I'll be adding more photos to this site as I edit them and posting some >>>> on >>>>> FB. Comments are greatly appreciated, always. >>>> -- >>>> _________________________________________________________________ >>>> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus >>>> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ >>>> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information