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Carrara and the marble caves
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:22 pm    Post subject: Carrara and the marble caves Reply with quote

Here's a couple pictures I took in Carrara, or better said above Carrara, where the caves of the famous Carrara marble are placed.
The camera is the 5D and the lens is the Contax "hollywood" Distagon 2/28:

1
The top white on the mountains (these are the Alpi Apuane mountains) is snow.
The lower off-whiteish is the marble caves.


2
This is a part of the upper group of houses, the caves are on the right of it.


The pictures were partly ruined by the fact that I lost my Eclipse 2 bottle during the house move, so I could not clean properly the 5D sensor, and using narrow apertures a lot of debris was shown. I have in fact what is the best picture I took that day, but it features a lot of dirt in the sky, and I am patiently cloning it off... but it will take some time!


PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a few 100% non sharpened crops to show how the Distagon 2/28 works, for the people who don't know the lens yet Smile







PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow!! simply great!

Thanks!

tf


PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great lens and a great place (I know it well...)!!


PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio
You manage to dangle these temptations like candy in front of a chocoholic - that is a lens to fantasize over. What a technical feat of design and engineering to produce a virtually rectilinear lens that wide and that sharp! and the scenery.. it has been years since I was there.


patrickh


PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's the better view photo I was talking about. Always 5D and Distagon 2/28
This picture was really infested by sensor dirt Sad
I cloned it out a bit but it takes too much time. Oh well I will have to go there and take another picture someday.
Still maybe it's interesting for those who don't know the place or as a souvenir for those who have been there time ago:



a couple of non-sharpened 100% crops of the caves (here you can really see the sensor dirt):





Next time I will take some telephoto lenses of the caves. What you see above are crops from the Distagon wideangle. I think it will be cool to maybe photograph these details with a Sonnar 180.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Distagon is such a great lens and this place looks exciting for photography I look forward for other shoots.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

... and the Sonnar 180 with its excellent resolution power will be a great idea for the tele shot!


PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How long has marble been quarried there? I suspect that it is more than 2,000 years.


patrickh


PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

patrickh wrote:
How long has marble been quarried there? I suspect that it is more than 2,000 years.
patrickh


Wikipedia says it was already extracted during the Copper Age!
But the big extraction activity started with the Romans, who used it a lot and named it marmor lunensis because it was near to the Roman colony of Luni,
that was located on the estuary of the river Magra, at the border between today's Toscana and Liguria.
The geographical area is called, since then, Lunigiana, and it comprises part of today's Toscana, Liguria and Emilia.