Hi Roger,
Wairoa? We may have driven through, I think.
The tramp to Leitchs hut was our first. It is easy going but landscape is
rewarding. The hut itself is within a vast clearing, A Mr. Leitch made in
expectation of the road to be built through. the road was never built though
and so it is still a very quiet place.
Re. contrast with the digital camera, I think it is because of the low density
of the sensor. It is only capable of capturing a limited band of light. You
either have to expose on the low light or the highlights of a scene, whereas
with e.g. slide film you can often do with an average metering. The C5050 has
multispot metering, so there is plenty to play with.
Regards,
Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mogford" <r.w.mogford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) Back on the list! from New Zealand
> Hi All
> I live in New Zealand in Wairoa, not all that far from the East Cape. I have
> been around the east Cape and it is wondeful.
> I will have to check out where Leitch's Hut is and go for a tramp there
> sometime.
> Thanks for sharing your photos Bernd.
> I have an Om4ti and a C5050 . I have taken the cC5050 tramping with me
> recently and have got some good photos but like Bernd I am having trouble
> with shots where there is too much contrast.
> Thanks
> Roger Mogford
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd Moeller" <dsl33687a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:10 PM
> Subject: [OM] ( OM ) Back on the list!
>
>
> Hi Brian and hi everybody on the list,
>
> I am back from Brian Swale's beautiful and sometimes puzzling country after
> spending three months there. I recognized his images at once, in particular
> the Purau Bay and the Botanical Garden in Christchurch. Especially the bay
> seen from Evans pass, which must be among Brians favourite photo sites.
>
> Brian, thanks many times for taking us to these places and some more when we
> visited Christchurch on our two weeks trip zig-zagging the South Island.
> Meeting you has been quite special and we have learnt a lot that day. It has
> been quite special to meet someone from this list as a real person (OK I
> have met Thomas Heide Clausen, but that was here in Aalborg).
>
> >From Christchurch we went across the Southern Alps to Franz Josef Glacier,
> further to Queenstown, Te Anau and Invercargill in the far South. It was
> really phantastic to end the time in NZ with such a trip that brought us to
> parts of the country we did not expect to see.
>
> Most of the time in NZ I spent working at the New Zealand Forest Research
> Institute Ltd., scoping the possibilities of using GIS for
> resource-economical analysis of the biomass to energy cycle (paper can be
> forwarded on request...). In the weekends my girlfriend Eva and I travelled
> to many places on the North Island, enjoying the Toyota Corolla that came
> with our rented house and the cheap fuel prices. Of course we took a lot of
> photos. I have just finished framing the 9 rolls of slide film, and burnt
> the 600 or so shots from the C5050 onto a CD. Eva has another 7 or so rolls
> from her beloved Min*lta X700.
>
> I found the digital camera to difficult to work with in high contrast (of
> which there is a lot in NZ). Slides on Provia work much better. But still a
> lot of snapshots and lowlight shots worked out great with that digital
> beast.
>
> And I should have brought the 75-150/4 instead of sharing the plastic Tamron
> 70-210 with Eva. That lens is just not sharp and contrasty and all shots
> look like shot through a softener. Otherwise the 24/2.8 was my favourite
> lens. The 35-70 3.5-4.5 was used a lot as well. Together they all traveled
> safely in my LowePro Nova 1.
>
> And yes, we have put a few pictures on a homepage, but one that never really
> got finished. Also, the page was meant for family and friends so it is only
> in German and Danish language. The image titles are in English, though:
>
> http://www.i4.auc.dk/berndm/nz2/nz.htm and click on "Deutsch" for the more
> extensive German site and on "Dansk" for a few less pictures with Danish
> subtitles. I will add some more language options and pictures once I have
> the time.
>
>
> Great to be back,
>
> Bernd
>
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