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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 18/2/2019: testing a new lens

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 18/2/2019: testing a new lens
From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:11:21 -0700
In Zen practice, an empty mind is good to have, but my desk will always be 
cluttered.

I only wash my car when it rains out by driving to the grocery store.

WayneS

At 2/21/2019 10:50 PM, you wrote:

>Car washing is much more important. An empty desktop is the sign of an empty 
>mind. 
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>From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
><olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:40:40 PM 
>Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 18/2/2019: testing a new lens 
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>I do not buy much new photo equipment these days?the stuff I have is good 
>enough.  But this week, on the suggestion of Moose on the Oly list, I picked 
>up a 12-32mm lens for my Panasonic GF1. On an MFT camera this range is 
>equivalent to 24­64mm, very usseful in a tiny package?this may well replace 
>the Ricoh  GRII as my cycling camera (the Ricoh is still the choice when 
>pocketability and/or high ISO capability are needed). The lens arrived on 
>Monday, and I have been shooting with it this week to test it in various 
>circumstances. It has been a busy week at work, so I have not had much time to 
>go out to photograph, and had to do most of my testing at the office. 
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>This was the very first image on Monday: 
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CzThMJL/A 
>Every company I have worked for since 1987, including the office where I work 
>now, has had a â??clean desk policyâ??. In every place I have heartily ignored 
>this policy, and I continue to do so. In my view, cleaning oneâ??s desk ranks 
>right up there with washing oneâ??s car as a total waste of time. 
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>I then set out to look for more interesting subjects, so I prowled the floor 
>looking for victims. Many people were at lunch but our Greek colleague Eri was 
>at her desk: 
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8927XVS/A 
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>And this one of our cafeteria terrace, actually taken on Wednesday, is a good 
>test of the distortions of the lens?not too much, albeit this is with the  
>lens set at 17mm, so not at the extreme wide end: 
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t936CK6/A 
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>Cheers, 
>Nathan 
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>Nathan Wajsman 
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>Alicante, Spain 
>http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> 
>http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu 
>PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws 
><http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 
><http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> 
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>Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
><http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> 
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>YNWA 
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