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Re: [OM] The lenses are here...

Subject: Re: [OM] The lenses are here...
From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:33:16 -0800
Good luck! Moving house is a major undertaking.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> They will likely fail to exist for some time.  We're still trying to
> unpack and store 150 boxes of stuff in a brand new house that, as of yet,
> doesn't even have a single curtain on a window.  Privacy is provided by
> stacks of moving boxes placed in front of the windows.  :-)
>
> Daughter and family will be here the day after Christmas.  Not much time
> to get some living space together.  I doubt they'll want to live behind the
> boxes for very long.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/2/2014 2:41 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
>
>> So long as I don't see the photos your new lenses won't exist ;-)
>>
>> Have fun :-)
>>
>> Amities
>> Philippe
>>
>> Le 1 déc. 14 à 23:39, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
>>
>>  The m.Zuiko 9-18 and 70-300 arrived a day early today.  So far I've
>>> taken a grand total of 3 shots.  2 with the 9-18 at 9 and 18mm and one
>>> with the 70-300 at 300mm.  The wides were to show how much of my back
>>> porch's screen enclosure can be captured and the width at the 9mm end
>>> surprised me.  The 300mm shot was of a roofer across the street just
>>> finishing the roof on one of the many houses being constructed around
>>> me.  Despite being perhaps 150 feet away I have a very clear shot of
>>> his face.  The fine details in his cap (the mesh on the back side) are
>>> not clear but maybe they would be if taken on a tripod.  I was very
>>> surprised at how the IBIS visibly steadied the image in the
>>> viewfinder.  I assume the other lenses must show the same but I'd
>>> never actually noticed it before.
>>>
>>> Anyhow the light is fading away and I still have numerous boxes to
>>> unpack and try to find a place for their contents before I can go play
>>> photographer again.
>>>
>>> The biggest surprise to me about the lenses was the extension of the
>>> 9-18.  I'd never seen it in other than its collapsed state.  The
>>> surprise was that I didn't know there was a collapsed state.  One has
>>> to twist the zoom collar to open it up for action and then slide a
>>> lock lever to collapse if for storage. When opened it is always at
>>> nearly double its collapsed length no matter what focal length is
>>> chosen although it is shortest by roughly 6mm between 14 and 18mm.
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>>
>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to
>> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>> NO ARCHIVE
>>
>>
>>
>>
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