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Subject: [Leica] Some very LUG-like sentiments here
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:22:43 +0200
References: <B6BA9517-F311-4595-B0FB-E56ADB06FE13@bex.net> <B3381119-48D6-477E-A063-0B8A172469B1@frozenlight.eu> <05BEAEC8-BCD0-45D0-B706-366AE7410AB7@bex.net>

Thanks for sharing! On my recent trips I have carried the Leica M2 or the 
Olympus OM4T, alongside the Fuji X digital.

Cheers,
Nathan


Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
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> On 9 Apr 2023, at 22:38, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 9, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> Behind a paywall :-(
>> But I like the title. I have been taking my film cameras with me on 
>> recent trips.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
> 
> 
> Sorry, I didn?t realize that because I have a subscription. I hope WaPo 
> won?t be too upset if I share the text.
> 
> ?howard
> 
> 
> My carry-on bag is mostly filled with camera gear. As a travel writer and 
> photographer <https://www.sebastianmodak.com/>, I have an almost obsessive 
> need to make sure I have the equipment for any contingency: long lenses in 
> case I spot a rare parakeet, shorter ones to make sure I get every angle 
> on every explosive sunset. So when it came time to take my first real 
> vacation in years, I decided I was going to leave all that gear in my 
> closet.
> 
> I still wanted memories from the vacation, especially because it was a 
> special one. I had just gotten married, and this multiday bicycling 
> journey through Slovenia was to be Maggie?s and my honeymoon. I wanted to 
> limit how many photos I took with my phone, too. This was going to be an 
> exercise in mindfulness and being present. Besides trying to break the 
> associations I had between photography, travel and work, I also wanted to 
> break my habits of reaching for my phone whenever I saw something remotely 
> interesting.
> 
> So I dove into the wild world of Facebook Marketplace, combed through a 
> sea of scams and landed a Canon 35mm film point-and-shoot from the early 
> 1990s. It wasn?t as cheap as it should have been, a direct result of 
> various Kardashians being photographed with similar point-and-shoots at 
> cool parties. It?s the size of a small brick and the shutter makes a sound 
> not dissimilar to a truck turning into Optimus Prime, but I was happy with 
> the find. I bought two rolls of film, dropped it all into my now eerily 
> lightweight carry-on and we were off.
> 
> Readers of a certain age will be rolling their eyes at this point. The 
> millennial falls for the allure of the retro chic and thinks it?s 
> revolutionary; we?ve seen this movie before. Fair enough, but this was 
> meant to disrupt my present, not relive the past. And it worked.
> 
> With just 72 photos in total to take over the course of two weeks, I was 
> more selective about what I photographed. Then, the camera was back in my 
> bag and I was back in the moment, rolling through vineyards, taking in the 
> view alongside my new wife, watching the days disappear.
> 
> When I got the photos developed two months after coming home, flipping 
> through them was its own joy. They weren?t perfect. A few selfies were 
> off-kilter and overexposed. An errant eyelash on the lens meant that for 
> ten photos, it looks like someone took to vandalizing our memories with a 
> Sharpie. But the imperfections made them even more accurate snapshots of 
> fleeting moments as they really were.
> My favorite photo from that trip was taken in the village of Stanjel after 
> a long day of cycling. Locking up our bikes at the bottom of town, we 
> walked up into the grounds of a castle where we tried to find the highest 
> point. We found it near a watchtower overlooking the densely wooded valley 
> below. This deserved to be one of the 72. I set up the camera on a nearby 
> rock and wound up the manual 10-second timer. I sprinted back and got into 
> position near Maggie, who wrapped her arms around me and kissed my cheek. 
> With the haphazard angle and the iffy afternoon light, I recognized in the 
> moment that it was a Hail Mary. Back in New York, I knew as soon as I saw 
> it that it would forever be a photo that meant more to me than any one of 
> the thousands of digital photos taken and retaken on so many trips around 
> the world.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On 9 Apr 2023, at 15:35, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at 
>>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I came upon this in the Washington Post completely by chance just a few 
>>> minutes after reviewing a few film images from a trip my future wife and 
>>> I took while we were living in Germany in the early ?80s.
>>> 
>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/film-camera-travel/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_optimist&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F39a5eeb%2F6432b7a353816d1ce09697f6%2F596a9eed9bbc0f0e09ede285%2F14%2F49%2F6432b7a353816d1ce09697f6&wp_cu=be5f733d951a09908e5b5a7798366d12%7C0913A1AB87942652E050007F01006D77
>>> 
>>> The only part I can?t relate to is not getting his film processed until 
>>> two months later.
>>> 
>>> ?howard
> 
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