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Re: [OM] IMG: More About Ross Lens

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: More About Ross Lens
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:15:13 -0600
Hi Chuck,

It is cropped.  No flash.  Have you forgotten already that snow, beneath an 
elevated subject, can make a perfect reflector?  And this was also shot 
through the storm door glass, because I don't have a blind to hide me from 
the birds.

Thanks for looking.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: More About Ross Lens


> 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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