What are Fall colors? <vvvbg> Larry in Dallas
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:47:13 US/Eastern > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fall colors > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There were some nice areas when i was driving up to and back from Madawaska > this past wekend,however very little red this year.Lots of yellow and gold though. > > Big winds on Sundays rain blew a lot off the trees. > > I received my 2 rolls of MF E100vs back last night,and to add a comment re the slide vs > film > thread of last week,Peter is correct in the latitude comments. > The best exposures were from the incident and spot meter readings.Those readings from the > on board meter of the 6x7 were under exposed by several stops,as i thought they might,but > i > wanted to experiment a bit to see what gave the best results. > > Did manage a few which would be PUG and or general list worthy.:-) > I thought i may have ruined the one shot i was hoping would turn out but all is > mostly ok. > > One thing i still have problems with the 6x7 is film advance at the rolls end. > I have a tendency to not roll the film to its end right a way and twice it has cost me a > shot > or two.This time i started to advance,stopped and drove on.When i opened the camera,there > was the > dreaded paper over the shutter still. > Only lost one end of shot 10 and a bit on the bottom of shot 9.Its cropable<vbg> > > Colours look great on the E100vs BTW > > Dave > > > > The fall colours are pretty dull here in Toronto > as well. Apparently, > > they're quite spectacular a couple of hours north of here in the Muskokas. > > > > I understand that what makes the colours vibrant and long lasting, is a > > large differential between nightime lows and daytime highs. We haven't had > > that here. It was cool days and evenings, then last week, warm days and > > evenings. Up north, apparently they had the right mix. > > > > I don't think rainfall has as much to do with it as temperature. > > > > cheers, > > frank > > > > > > > > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > > fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: "Bob S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Fall colors > > >Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:45:52 +0000 > > > > > >Very short fall here in Chicago too...mostly last weekend. > > >We had little color last Sunday, but peak by Friday/Saturday. > > >Then Sunday, the trees lost half their leaves. > > >Quite odd... > > >Regards, Bob S. > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________
