Member Peter Dooling

spoons;4813 wrote: I use the battery grip and it does help balance the camera, if making it quite large in the hand. Some posters have suggested that the camera is only as heavy as a ‘normal' DSLR. It is much heavier.

Also, contrary to some suggestions from other posters, the batteries are drained pretty much equally and if shooting tethered…

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Thank you David. I thoroughly enjoy your model shoots and this model especially.

This is a passion flower. You did a good job of capturing its beauty.

You are absolutely right Jack. Thank you for posting one. About all I could capture today was rain so didn't bother. Every year near 4th of July, the town I live in puts out thousands of american flags (similar to the one in your photo) along the median of the major streets. They have been doing it since I move here over 25 years ago and I am glad…[Read more]

I am impressed with your focusing skills with the Nocti. I know from experience that it isn't easy nailing the focus point where you want it with that lens. The least amount of body sway or subject movement will throw it off due to the shallow dof.

So I see the model is wearing something reddish/pinkish in this latest crop whereas she is…[Read more]

Extremely well done David. Of course a beautiful model helps considerably. Thank you for the crop – it is much easier to see that the model has great eyes.

Interesting. You have me curious about what you may be photographing with this behind the scene look. Care to share more info?

peterv;4672 wrote: Thank you for pointing me to your article, David. I remember reading it at the time, but had completely forgotten about the ‘parallel' writing.

Anyway, I have a 32 Gb SD card which I will use in the S2 without the CF in the camera. This will make downloading the files on my MBP easier, since I won't need an extra card…

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peterv;4670 wrote: What a wonderful forum this is! I had the same issue, while using parallel on my S2 shooting DNG only, the SD card stayed empty …
A Google search pointed me to this thread, problem solved. That is to say I'm glad I found out it's not my S2 or me doing something wrong, but I find the DNG to CF and JPG to SD a bit odd. Calling…

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Doug;4649 wrote: I did some work in the LR5 beta. The release version converted my LR4 catalog into a LR5 catalog. I'd like to merge the 5beta catalog into this main LR5 catalog, but I don't see how to do that. Thanks for any helpful suggestions. :confused:

Under File menu, try Import from Another Catalog…

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Nice result, Jack. Gotta love those “automagic” type buttons!

A few more fun images from the trip…

Thanks for the info on LR5b. Looks like this will be a nice upgrade.

Personally, I'm not one to transition to a Beta version. I'll wait for the RC to start playing.

David, thank you for the offer. I will take you up on it. However, I won't be bringing the zoom cause I haven't bought it yet. David was able to get a demo from Kelsey for the workshop but they are still scarce.

Please feel free to make us jealous with some more of your photo shoots.:D

Mark

Well done David. One of these days I will come to south Florida and come see you and your models rather than go to the Everglades. It's no wonder you didn't come to on the workshop – why go chasing beauty when it will come to you!

The Leica S/S2 can shoot either a compressed or uncompressed DNG file. If you shoot an uncompressed DNG file it will be around 75mb in size. If you shoot compressed, that's around 45mb. By default, Lightroom does not change the file size of a DNG, what you are probably seeing are files that you shot compressed.

Thank you Roger. I wish you could have come along.

I figured it was time for me to show some of my photos especially since I had to leave early on Sunday and missed the slide show.

First morning sunrise.

S2, 30-90mm Vario-Elmar at 30mm, 2 image stack, Everglades, near Long Pine Key Campground

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Sadly I didn't take another absurd photo of me with all the cameras…I knew I could never top the photo from New England!

I didn't shoot very much, but here are a few of my favorites from the trip:

I was able to shoot a bit with the new Leica M and some interesting lenses including the Leica APO-Elmarit-R 180mm f/2.8 (used on the black and white shot of the bricks) and a Zeiss Contax Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4 (used on the last image). I…[Read more]