Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] Sinai 2012
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:08:21 -0500
References: <CC0A1D0B.11F90%manolito@videotron.ca> <54E134A8-2FF0-4F06-BAC1-03514E2103D1@usjet.net>

Big + 1 !

a note off the iPad, George

On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> wrote:

> It's hard to imagine how these would be any better if you had been able to 
> shoot them with the MP -- they are splendid!    And all shot with a 50!
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:01 PM, EPL wrote:
> 
>> 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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In reply to: Message from manolito at videotron.ca (EPL) ([Leica] Sinai 2012)
Message from robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier) ([Leica] Sinai 2012)