[LRflex] Re: Elks and third cams...
- From: "Kohyanga LeBarbu" <kohyanga@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:20:59 +0200
In fact, the Moose is closer to the Gnu
(http://www.africaguide.com/images/library/asp028.jpghttp://www.africaguide.
com/images/library/asp028.jpg)
While the Waptiti looks like the Rein Deer, found with Santa's herd...
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Kohyanga LEBARBU
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Young" <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Elks and third cams...
> Keith Longmore wrote:
>
> >Hi David
> >I like the shot of the elk; if it was mine, I would crop some off
> >the right side, but it's a good stance, isn't it?
>
> I agree ... the current cropping keeps the "classic" 2:3
> format. However, I could keep the same height, while reducing the
> width, by using the 4:5 ratio (8x10" print instead of an 8x12"
> one). I'll give it a try. Thanks fro the idea.
>
> >BTW: 'elk' over here means something a bit different - you call them
> >moose! So I was a little surprised. Is yours what we know as a
caribou..?
>
> I believe what we call Caribou is what you call a Reindeer. To us, a
> Moose has a broad, flat-ish, almost solid "hat rack". Our Caribou
> are smaller than the Wapiti (Elk) and their "hat racks" sweep much
> further back. Especially so with the Woodland Caribou.
>
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk for Elk.
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer for Caribou (Reindeer).
> See: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose for Moose.
>
> Although a better idea of the solid nature of the Moose antlers
> can be seen in the drawings and photos at
> http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/moose.html
>
> > We saw a giant shape by the side of the road in Sweden some years
> > ago, screeched to a stop, and I found myself filming a moose. I
> > wouldn't want to meet one on a dark night!! Quite a lot of
> > collisions with moose in Sweden; at night, your headlights go under
> > the body, so you tend not to see the moose until it's too
> > late. The car knocks its legs from under it, and half a ton of
> > body comes through the windscreen.....
>
> Happens a lot here, too. Moose collisions are almost 70% fatal for
> the occupants of the car and 100% fatal for the Moose. We have good
> friends who survived a collision with a moose (our moose) but 7 years
> later, Grant is still in constant pain and there is nothing more the
> medics can do for him. One reason that these collisions occur is
> that, unlike deer, the eyes of the moose are non-reflecting, so you
> don't see them whilst driving at night, even if they look at you!
>
>
> >Third cams
> >I now have a full complement of properly working lenses! I made a
> >third cam for the 80-200 - the one that the Leica guy told me
> >couldn't be done - and, since I hadn't received the bits at that
> >point, made another for the 250. Both worked fine. The bits came
> >from Leica next day, so I left the camera and 80-200 to be tested,
> >fitted the Leica bits, and took the 250 back next day. Guess
> >what? It no longer worked! :-( There was a gap between the
> >third and second cams (even though the third cam was fitted
> >correctly) so I borrowed some tools, took it to bits in the shop,
> >bent the third cam a bit, reassembled it, and it then worked.
> >Both lenses proved to meter to within 0.2 of a stop. So I'm well
> >pleased. Just wish I hadn't bothered buying the (expensive) Leica
> >parts. Not only that, but the bits they provided for the 250/4 were
> >labelled 80-200 Vario Elmar! So the story that it couldn't be done
> >was rubbished by Leica themselves!! :-! Can't say I'm very
impressed.....
>
>
> Which 80~200 do you have? The f4 was only made in 3 cam for a very
> short while (about 4 months, I'm told) and then production was
> converted to the ROM + 3rd cam format. Leica maintain that this lens
> cannot be converted from ROM + 3rd Cam to 3-Cam, but Doug Herr has
> done it - saying it's relatively straight forward.
>
> Anyway, thankful that you have them all properly running!
>
> Cheers!
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
>
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