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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Tenkara fishing. I drenched my camera.
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:24:23 +0930
References: <3C0C9862-4DEB-4EC7-8B30-D333B2C30C51@yahoo.co.uk>

I have a 12' Iwana from tenkarausa.com:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Randomness/L1005447web.jpg.html

What do you fish for?  I've always thought that masu fishing would be fun.

Marty


On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> 
wrote:
> I usually take my Fujifilm Klasse on fishing trips. ?Yesterday I waded in
> water too deep for comfort and the camera got submerged. ?I took the 
> battery
> out and hoped hanging it around my neck would let the sun dry it. ?The next
> day I removed the Neopan 400 B&W film. ?I had taken only about ?11 shots, 
> so
> cut away the remainder of the film. ?The Klasse winds all the film onto the
> free spool first, so exposed film is already in the can. ?The can is 
> sitting
> on my desk. ?I'll send it in for developing one of these days. ?After
> sitting on my windowsill, the camera is in apparently perfect working 
> order.
> ?However, I'm thinking of retiring it from fishing trips and using a
> mechanical camera instead. ?Maybe one of my Kodak Stereo Cameras loaded 
> with
> Velvia.
>
> If you're interested in this meditative, light-packing form of river
> fishing, check out tenkarausa.com.
>
> Here is a photo set from a previous river fishing trip, about three weeks
> ago.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3t5ac4f
>
> All the best,
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] IMGs: Tenkara fishing. I drenched my camera.)