Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>... Alastair Firkin talks about the amount of film he intends to take along.. >.. upon which Alan Brown gives the very wise advice: > Is that enough film? Or are you going to buy more film while in Japan? > You can never have too much film. my 2 cents: When I was in Japan 2 years ago I had a hard time finding slide film at all; had to find a "pro photo shop" in a back road (that was in Kyoto, not exactly off the beaten track, zillions of tourists around). When I found one it turned out that Fuji film cost more than double the price I paid back home (in Germany, that is). Makes you wonder... My Japanese friend offered the explanation that in Japan, hardly anybody shoots slides because due to the minuscule size of the average flat, they'd need 15 mm lenses for their slide projectors! - -- Dieter Dieter Stoll D-72127 Kusterdingen, Germany dstoll@tuebingen.netsurf.de Home fax: +49-7071-368520