Ralf, Very pleasing and well composed scene! Something there for all senses. Center weighted LX meter no doubt reacted to the fairly bright (if somewhat off-center) reflections. Too bad a matrix option wasn't available. I'm still looking for the "barrel distortion." Maybe my monitor suffers from a slight bit of pincushion? <LOL>
Jack --- "Ralf R. Radermacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First results with the new toys: > > http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1145051 > > Arcelor's coking plant in Seraing, Belgium. Nothing extraordinary in > this shot, BTW. Just normal routine operation with a few badly sealed > oven doors and a bit of excess gas being flared off in the > background. > Never mind the 50,000 people living within a two mile radius. > > Comments on the shot are welcome. > > As expected, the LX's light metering has proven itself totally > inadequate with such scenery. It suggested 8 secs while at least 30 > are > needed to get some detail into the shadows and 60 secs is about > right. > Yet, nothing to be ashamed of. I've never sen anything meter > correctly > under such conditions. > > I'd be quite happy if there weren't this nasty barrel distorsion of > the > 24 mm lens. Contrary to the details given on the linked page, it's > the > A2.8/24 mm. > > Anything else in this focal range that would be a little more linear? > > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de > manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 > Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
