Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante, Good travel tips. I just spent the hols in Asia with family, and made do quite nicely with a Hexar RF and 35mm VC Ultron. That plus film, travel docs, airplane essentials etc. all fit snugly into a Domke 803 satchel, which I ditched in the room when out on walkabout. My shoulders, back and family were grateful, and it was liberating to be confined to one lens. But you can't please everybody: in a laid-back fishing village on one of the outer islands of Hong Kong, a local old-timer walked up and asked if I had a Leica -- when he saw that it wasn't, he kind of snorted and walked away. rgds Peter Choy. P.S. The solo camera gambit is, as noted in other posts, also a gamble. Not recommended for weddings. Asia is full of dust, and is the spiritual home of Murphy's law. Once I had a CLE get jammed, and another time a IIIf hung up on me. Happily, each time I stopped in HK, which is one of the better places on the planet to have dodgy old cameras fixed on the spot (note to self: don't rely solely on dodgy old cameras -- open mind to using dodgy new cameras). - ---------- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Users digest) >To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Leica Users digest V21 #252 >Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 3:38 AM > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:59:13 -0500 > From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu> > Subject: [Leica] New article on travel tips. > Message-ID: <B86BC450.AD58%dante@umich.edu> > References: > > I have assembled what I have learned about travel photography so far ("How > to survive a trip with your camera") at > > http://www.dantestella.com/technical/travel.html > > I tend to think the issues discussed there apply very much to the > rangefinder type of person. I hope someone finds it useful. Took long > enough to write... > > Cheers > - ------------ > Dante Stella > > > - -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > ------------------------------ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html