Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings everybody, just got back from a trip to Italy. What a great country! This was my third trip there, this time to Rome and south. It's hard to be back in the States and (mostly gray) Seattle, now. Anyway, to keep on topic, I took two M6 bodies, 35/2A, 50/2, 90/2.8 and Delta 400 film. My 28/2.8 stayed home for I wanted to travel light. And I hardly ever felt a need for it. Actually, I hardly used it ever since I got the 35/2A last fall (that makes me think, maybe I should trade it for 24/2.8A, anybody interested?). The only x-ray problems were in London. Those guys always x-rayed all my film, despite it being in a clear plastic bag without containers. Americans and Italians let me hand it thru without the x-ray. What's wrong with those British guys? From Rome we went to Pompei, then Amalfi coast and Ravello (highly recommended; the day we got there the Parisian Orchestra was playing outside, on a platform between sea and sky, La Mer). Then on to Paestum and down to Sicily. I wish we spent more time in Palermo, but it was just too hot for us and it looked like the garbage collectors had been on strike for a week or so... And then to Lipari (Aeolian) Islands. A dream, clean blue water, black sand and volcanoes. Just couldn't stand the strong sulfur odor on one of the islands (Vulcan). And then on to Napoli and Rome. The trip would be even better out of season, but we couldn't do it this time. Next time... I'm in the process of developing the film (in Xtol 1+1, no sight of Ilfotec DD-X in Seattle), so far it looks pretty good. That 35/2A is quite amazing... Jiri Dvorak