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
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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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