Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Big + 1 ! a note off the iPad, George On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> wrote: > It's hard to imagine how these would be any better if you had been able to > shoot them with the MP -- they are splendid! And all shot with a 50! > > Robert > > > On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:01 PM, EPL 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information