Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Lugnuts - I'm back from the Mosquito Coast and wanted to report that the Pelican case carrying my Leicas worked perfectly. Even though the pressure dial was lost sometime in the first couple of days, the case kept all of the moisture and dust away from my M6's and R6.2. Of course, the problem with that is that you can't take photos while the cameras are in a case! I was in a dugout canoe for a total of 27 hours during which it poured rain - monsoon style - with lightening, rapids and whitewater. We sat on sticks across the canoe and shivered in the cold rain (I never expected to be cold in the Mosquito Coast!) Once we got to the village of Tukrun, I got out my Leicas and spent the days translating for the medical clinics and taking photos. I've never seen so much mud in my life. We asked why the mud had rainbow colors like motor oil and were informed that it was a tropical fungus. I'm still scratching. I haven't edited the photos yet, but I think I probably used the M6 and 35/1.4 and the R6.2 with the 60 Macro more than anything else. I tried using some Kodak Supra film as an experiment in scanning, but so far am disappointed. The TMax 400 and Provia F look much better. Have to get some photos back to Honduras today by e-mail. It's amazing to be in a place so remote that there is no communication except short-wave radio for emergencies - no roads, no telephones, no television, no electricity, no cell-phones! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com