Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] Sinai 2012
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:17:32 +0200
References: <CC0A1D0B.11F90%manolito@videotron.ca>

My favourite is of course "Moi",  M'sieur ;-)

All very good - sorry for you about the technical mishap on the MP -  
you should have mailed the LUG, I know people who would have sent you  
a spare camera, moi par hasard, among others.

Keep the good work coming
Philippe

Le 22 juin 12 ? 19:00, EPL a ?crit :

> Here is a selection of highly personal portraits of friends I took  
> in the
> Sinai desert (Egypt) about a month ago.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/emanuellowi/Dl2009/
>
> Here's the story behind them.
>
> On my first picture-taking day in the desert, my Leica MP failed me --
> complete malfunction. The camera had just come back from service and  
> --
> apparently -- the factory-authorized repairman had done something  
> wrong. For
> the first time in my career, I'd brought just one camera, with no  
> back-up. I
> wanted to travel light. So I faced two months of travel with no  
> camera. I
> resigned myself to recording images with my eyes only.
>
> Then, a few days before my travels ended, I met a 21-year-old college
> student from Iowa, USA, who was travelling with two 35mm film  
> cameras. He
> agreed to loan me one -- a Canon T70 with 50/1.8 lens -- for a few  
> days.
>
> I shot five rolls of film, four were C41 colour negative, one a roll  
> of E6
> slide film, during two days. These are my quick selects from the  
> five rolls,
> scanned commercially at 15 cents a scan.
>
> Thank you, Jared.
>
> Emanuel
>
>
>
>
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