Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cataracts
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:22:19 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1CLrHDPpScnoBM=Uy7LeT_ZTcOxt2i5fQk2ya3tJtP1OQ@mail.gmail.com> <a7a223fa4d2d9b0054999d0c2d2a9106.squirrel@emailmg.globat.com>

No.  These were just record shots to identify the people later.  I took one
close portrait and two macro shots of just the eye or eyes with cataracts
for the surgeon to verify that they were candidates for surgery.  The
identification worked because we were able to find them two or three years
later.

Tina

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:14 PM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:

> > PESO:
> >
> > In 1998 and 1999, we did a survey of people who needed cataract
> operations
> > in several remote villages in Honduras.  Then in 2001 we bused them to
> > Tegucigalpa where we had set up a clinic with a cataract surgeon who
> > operated successfully on them.  We plan to do that again in the next
> > couple
> > of years.  I have several hundred photos of the ones we originally
> > surveyed
> > that I'm scanning now.  Here is one:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148144990
> >
> > Most of the people are very serious and not smiling for their clinic
> > photos.
>
> Nice portrait, but it does not necessarily say cataracts. Did you include
> the environment with her as well?
>
> Alastair
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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