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<p>Carson, don't worry about Windows 8. Give yourself the chance to get used to it for a few days. Otherwise, you could use your downgrade rights. the link here gives you all information you might need: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=atugvmVwl86">http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=atugvmVwl86</a></p>

<p>Ian, I have the same camera and urge for wide. I love the camera and I can't find a good replacement at the moment.<br>

There is a 8mm Samyang on the market.<br>

here is the link to my original post about this lens: <a href="00VnBE">http://www.photo.net/olympus-camera-forum/00VnBE</a></p>

<p>I would be happy to help the Leice engineers to test some of the prototypes in real life! Please PM me! Please Please!<br>

Actually not a bad idea. battery life seems a slight problem, this is a way to save it. <br />The presence of a lever would increase the "poor guy, can't buy a new camera" image.</p>

<p>First I was scared the legend of 36 exposures being the wingspan of Oskar Barnack was not true.<br>

Thnx Leigh B (and Wikipedia) for pointing out the reason of 20 being approximately half of 36.<br>

Richard, good luck with finding good reals and your resurected dark room.</p>

<p>An 8 mm lens on DX becomes 12 mm. An 8 mm lens on 4/3 becomes 16 mm. I think it is that simple. <br>

The Samyang is designed to cover a bigger area than 4/3 so that would not be a problem. Mounting this lens on a full frame body would cause serious vignetting and lack of sharpness in the corners or even a circular image.<br>

An other point of interest is the distance between the back element of the lens and the sensor. This would also make a difference, but I think this is corrected with the placing of the bayonet on the lens. Otherwise, the focusing scale would not match reality.<br>

I would like to go back to my main question: I am looking for an extreme wide lens for occasional and recreational use. I could find a lens priced 1/5 lower than an equivalent Olympus lens. I know I would have to give up auto focus. Do you think, knowledge the above, the Oly would perform 5 times better?</p>

<p>excuse me for being persistent in my questions :-) I am learning here!<br>

I assume the G1 example is about the crop factor. your 12.5 mm lens becomes 25 mm on the G1. The 8mm becomes 16 mm. I am aware of that. But the Oly 8mm does the same.<br>

There would be no problem with illumination as this is a lens designed for a bigger sensor than 4/3. So it's the opposite than your 4x5 example.</p>

<p>Isn't the angle of view the same on each 8 mm lens? Of course the angle of view will change with sensor size.<br>

I understand The Olympus 8mm is designed especially for 4/3 bodies, but Samyang's lens was designed for bigger sensors than a 4/3. That would give a corner sharpness advantage over the other mounts.</p>

<p>A while ago, Samyang announced 2 four thirds lenses.</p>

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<p><strong>30.12.2009 - Samyang has informed that new lenses: Samyang 8 mm f/3.5 fish-eye and Samyang 85 mm f/1.4 with a mount for Olympus 4/3, have been released to the market. The lenses complete the series of mounts designed for Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax.</strong></p>

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<p>Here is the url to their website: <a href="http://www.samyang.pl/en?PHPSESSID=46cd863969ba3eb66af3090d04ed2fbb">http://www.samyang.pl/en</a><br>

I think it is good news an other company invests in 4/3 mount. And nobody mentioned these lenses on Photo.net... Why? <br>

Personally I am very interested in the 8 mm. The Olympus version is very expensive and it is not a lens I would use on a daily basis, just a few shots every month.<br>

What do you think? Is this good news or not? Would you buy one of these?</p>

<p>Priceless :-))<br>

The morale: back-up!</p>

<p>Belgium - Puurs</p><div></div>

<p>Journalism had something personal back then. I love these old magazines.<br>

The book section of the world's favorite search engine has a large collection of old magazines. The best of all is, that you can search in them for Leica.</p>

<p>You have CS4 installed, why don't you give Adobe Bridge a try? You will have more or less the same experience than your manual folders + keywording possibilities, light tables...<br>

If you don't like it, no harm or extra (lost) work is done. Most other software will understand the keyword you've added with Bridge.</p>

 

<p>I agree with Richard, get a pro!</p>

<p>Alan,<br>

You are not allowed to upload pictures that are not yours on the forum, you should link to them. (I'm not the mod, but I mention it any way :-))<br>

basicaly you need a texture (color or not) and add it over your image, play with Opacity and blending modes until you get what you want. Try desaturating for that vintage look. I think you could get nice results if you checked on the displacement filter. add some vignet and some local dodge and burn. and you are done.<br>

(I based my answer on the 1st and 3d picture. I could not see the texture on the other pictures.)<br>

Good luck! looking forward to see your results on this very forum!</p>

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<p>If you still have a hand left while holding a black cloth and holding the shutter down, you can do that. but make sure there is NO light coming in! your shutter will be open all the time.</p>

<p>It deffinately should be: push down the colar, turn clockwards to block it in the "down" position. It should rewind smooth. Maby you already forced something.<br>

An alternative that might work: put on the lenscap and put on "B" with a release cable. If I'm not mistaken, this also unlocks the rewind mechanism.</p>

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<p>Bruges</p><div></div>

Michael, were you arrested for the indecent "digiscoping" or for the Jack?

<p>As usual when I fly to Belgium, the first thing I do is go to the newspaper shop in the departure hall to buy LFI (The only place I know where they sell it).<br>

Here I found an article about the TRIMA 1 and TRICA 1 Leica tripods...<br>

Checked on Photo.net and nothing about these!! Yes, it looks like I have a scoop!<br>

Here is the link: <a href="http://us.leica-camera.com/sport_optics/televid_spotting_scopes/digiscoping/">http://us.leica-camera.com/sport_optics/televid_spotting_scopes/digiscoping/</a><br>

Can we expect ballheads in the future? What do you think? What might be next leica softboxes...</p>

good for you!

<p>it does not convert the file into sRGB. It saves the file without embedded profile (to save space). Unless you select to embed the profile you were working in in the first place. The <em>save for web and devices" </em>dialog is there to save your files as small as possible, not to convert to other colorspaces.</p>

<p>Pity this one is not gold plated :-)</p>