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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: More About Ross Lens
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:47:42 -0500
Looks a bit grainy/noisy.  Is this a small crop of a larger image?  I 
also note a bit of confusion on my part re the lighting.  I don't 
understand the relatively strong light coming from below which is 
casting shadows of the birds above them.  Did you have a low mounted 
flash out there?

Chuck Norcutt


On 1/14/2011 2:03 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I received my monopod yesterday, and tried it with the E-1 and the
> only two 200mm lenses that I have, the Ross 200mm f/16 from 1890, and
> a Pentax Takumar from the 1970s.  The monopod helps with steadying
> the camera, which I will find useful.  Surprisingly, the Ross lens
> holds it own with its more modern, though old itself, competitor.
> Colors seem a little brighter with the coated Pentax lens, but the
> Ross seems a little sharper.
>
> Here is a Ross image, again, shot through a storm door glass.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cardinal+2.jpg.html
>
> This exercise makes a Leica-R 250mm f/4 Telyt look very interesting.
>
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>
> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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