Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My good friend, and Leica user, Paul Wood, just had his B&W Cuba series published in Leica Fotography 8/98, including scenes in a cigar factory. Paul uses an M3 for his B&W work. Paul has been in the camera retail business for forty years and is currently the "used camera" guru at Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto, CA. Jim At 02:44 PM 1/14/99 -0500, you wrote: >Sander: > >Cuba is high on my list of places to visit. Unfortunately it is still off >limits for US citizen travels (really rediculous). > >You must have missed LUGGER LAW #29 which clearly states that all LUGGERS >traveling to Cuba must share their Cohibas, Hoya De Monterreys and Trinidads. >I will be very understanding and pay the shipping costs for my share. I >believe that's a box of each!......................(joking, of course). > >I would love to see some of your Leica shots. > >Bob Bedwell > ><< Nathan, > > Congratulations on buying your new M6HM! Hope you like it as much as I do. > > I just got back from two weeks in Cuba. Did not take the 'Tom A. softie', in > fear of losing that special LUG softie you know about. > > The M6, with 50/2 and 24/2.8, performed really well. A high percentage of > slides were well exposed, also on Agfa Scala, pushed tot 1600 for the shots > in the Casas de la Trova. That is where they play Son and other Cuban music. > > My friends told me that they found the M6 to be really inobtrusive and less > threatening than SLR cameras, especially with flash. Poeple also react well > this camera, I found out. > > Cuba is a marvel for photographers with photogenic landscapes and colonial > cities and really friendly people. Very wellcoming and inviting you into > their homes all the time. > > We rented a car and drove 2000 km! > > Will put some pics on the net when they are dry! > > Sander > >>