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Subject: [Leica] What would you take to Peru?
From: dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:17:42 -0400
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RCM -

Stronger than an 010 or a Leica UV/IR?  If it requires something like a 
UV-17 (Tiffen), a UV-B (Hoya)  or a 415 (B+W), I could probably pick one up 
today, but if I already have something kicking around.... 

Tina - what were you using with the M8?

Thanks!
Dante

On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:21 AM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:

> High UV filters.  You get up in the Andes and unless you're a TREMENDOUS 
> fan of blue chromes.... You're going to want them.  
> 
>  
> R. Clayton McKee
> PhotoJournalist
> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:43 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] What would you take to Peru?
>> 
>> 
>> Since this is sometimes a place for abstraction, I'll pose a hypothetical.
>> 
>> Assume that you are a male in good physical conditioning.  If you are 
>> going traipsing around in the mountains and among ruins in Peru, what 
>> would you take?  I'm headed out next week.  Usually, no matter where I 
>> go, I take a Fuji GA645, 20 rolls of 120 film (for b/w), and some small 
>> camera for color.  Sometimes a 6x9 Fuji instead of the "little" Fuji.  
>> I've been pretty good at making it work, as Tim Gunn would say.
>> 
>> Aside from Macchu Picchu, I think I can improvise with about anything.  
>> But up on the mountain (a place where I probably will never return), what 
>> are the conditions like? Any weird-color light that screws with exposure 
>> meters (like in the desert)?  Any particular filtration?  Were I to 
>> deviate from my normal packing, there would be a lot of choices (these 
>> are the *realistic* ones...)
>> 
>> Fuji GA645 (=35mm)
>> - small, light, flawless
>> 
>> Fuji GL690 (with 50, 100 and/or 180mm lenses)
>> - heavy as hell, but the 50mm has eye-burning resolution 
>> - wants a separate meter
>> - would require 40 rolls of film
>> 
>> X100 (=35mm)
>> - very lightweight, some ability to use grad NDs
>> 
>> D700 (I can cover anything from 17 to 300mm)
>> - heavy, fast, able to shoot in any light.  Great for ND grads
>> 
>> Leica M8 (21 to 90mm)
>> - Not bad for all purposes, but a little heavy
>> 
>> Nex-5 (16mm or 18-55 lenses).
>> - kills the X100 in shooting speed. Not bad at taking pictures, either. 
>> Excels at HD video.
>> - somewhere, in a drawer, I have the superwide lens adapter
>> 
>> Neither film nor batteries nor supplies are really an issue. If I took a 
>> GL690, I would grab a cheaper 50mm (=21mm) finder than my Universal 
>> Wideangle Finder M, but other than that, this will be off the shelf.  I 
>> would not take two heavy cameras, but aside from that, the sky is the 
>> limit. As I would imagine at 10,000 feet.
>> 
>> Ideas?  I usually go on gut instinct the day before, but I do like to 
>> hear different perspectives.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Dante
>> 
>> ____________
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>> http://www.dantestella.com
>> 
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