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Moody, Gary Rich blacks. I think I pushed mine a bit too much in my last BWs
Edward, I wish I could have one of those with you
lenticular11 wrote:
Thanks Charlie
Re 'Putin 10 years on' I'm sure the subject is a much nicer person and the real P will probably look much worse!
ref your low-emission cats, with Australia's recent 3rd-from-last world ranking, just send the old ones to us as it doesn't look like anyone in authority gives a d*** about emission-control, despite smoke-and-mirrors from our senior politicians at COP21 in Paris.
We're also such a nanny nation, despite our 'Desperate Dan' European settlement origins, that I'm pretty sure no kids would be permitted on top of the caterpillar track, just in case somebody decided to start it up. It's a great photo.
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Well, if you look close they have a special giant plank on the track I'm glad the efficiency is improving, overall I'm not proud of the carbon footprint of the sport, where man-made features like terrain parks are the rage. The warming has had a terrible effect on the ecosystem here, and a good portion of my photography inspiration has been to document megafires and beetle kill. But I'm a hypocrite, with my motorcycles etc.
All the numbers have been pointing for months to an extreme winter here, for which we are long overdue, but even that is related to the recent huge occilations in mega-weather, which are linked to industrial society. I feel as if swept in a giant flood, not able to really control my general direction, but simply fighting to keep afloat and open my eyes as wide as possible when my head does pop up.
Wolf Beast by unoh7, on Flickr
Cab by unoh7, on Flickr
Cockpit by unoh7, on Flickr
Leitwolf by unoh7, on Flickr
relms wrote:
Charlie,
What a design! is right. I frequently move back and forth between the Cron 50 and the Lux 50, normally leaving the Lux on the M240 and the Cron on the M246, where it absolutely sings. But a month or so ago, I sent the Lux to Leica NJ for 6-bit coding, and since then I have been switching the Cron back and forth between the two cameras, and now with the addition of the SL to the mix, between the three cameras. The Cron is, indeed, an impressive design, equally at home wherever it's mounted. I take issue with those who claim it is "too sterile" in its rendering. If what I am seeing from the lens is what they are calling sterile, then I'll take all I can get.
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Robert, all those are also the Mandler 50/2 I have long craved a lux asph, but in the past 6 months I've learned my cron better. Sometime you hear: "It's soft wide open". With my copy if you shoot wide open at distant objects, it's not pretty. But Puts comments made me review my shots, and realize, close in at f/2 it is unbelievable. Which is funny, because at f/8 the little thing is fantastic at infinity! I also figured out why it is sometime sterile: it hardly vignettes. I have to add that in some shots . As to the bokeh, it's as good as any 35 M mount I know, except maybe the CV 35/1.2, and alot better than most.
It does produce varied looks, point it one direction it looks "clincal", turn it the other way, it's "Mandler Magic", and the way our cameras make such different WB mixes as the light direction and intensity varies enhances this.
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