Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You did a wonderful job with a borrowed camera! What a nightmare! I hope you will relate all of this to Leica (and I hope you have learned your lesson about never traveling with only one camera!!) Tina On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote: > Here is a selection of highly personal portraits of friends I took in the > Sinai desert (Egypt) about a month ago. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/emanuellowi/Dl2009/ > > Here's the story behind them. > > On my first picture-taking day in the desert, my Leica MP failed me -- > complete malfunction. The camera had just come back from service and -- > apparently -- the factory-authorized repairman had done something wrong. > For > the first time in my career, I'd brought just one camera, with no back-up. > I > wanted to travel light. So I faced two months of travel with no camera. I > resigned myself to recording images with my eyes only. > > Then, a few days before my travels ended, I met a 21-year-old college > student from Iowa, USA, who was travelling with two 35mm film cameras. He > agreed to loan me one -- a Canon T70 with 50/1.8 lens -- for a few days. > > I shot five rolls of film, four were C41 colour negative, one a roll of E6 > slide film, during two days. These are my quick selects from the five > rolls, > scanned commercially at 15 cents a scan. > > Thank you, Jared. > > Emanuel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com