[Leica] IMGs: Tenkara fishing. I drenched my camera.

[geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne)]

I usually take my Fujifilm Klasse on fishing trips.  Yesterday I waded  
in water too deep for comfort and the camera got submerged.  I took  
the battery out and hoped hanging it around my neck would let the sun  
dry it.  The next day I removed the Neopan 400 B&W film.  I had taken  
only about  11 shots, so cut away the remainder of the film.  The  
Klasse winds all the film onto the free spool first, so exposed film  
is already in the can.  The can is sitting on my desk.  I'll send it  
in for developing one of these days.  After sitting on my windowsill,  
the camera is in apparently perfect working order.  However, I'm  
thinking of retiring it from fishing trips and using a mechanical  
camera instead.  Maybe one of my Kodak Stereo Cameras loaded with  
Velvia.

If you're interested in this meditative, light-packing form of river  
fishing, check out tenkarausa.com.

Here is a photo set from a previous river fishing trip, about three  
weeks ago.

http://tinyurl.com/3t5ac4f

All the best,

Peter Cheyne