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Subject: [Leica] Shan State - Burma Book Project: M9+Summicron-35v4
From: mitcha at mac.com (mitcha at mac.com)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:12:04 +0100
References: <D3A64812-360D-4FAE-ADBC-659FC76C8B51@mac.com> <693BF849-37DC-4850-B00E-F7E08B9F447A@frozenlight.eu>

Tak, Mieczys?aw (Mietek). Te same t?o jak Pana. Wyjecha?em z Polski po 
wojnie, jako dzieciak. 

Komentarze i krytyka s? mile widziane.

Mitch
Paris
Looking for Baudelaire [WIP]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/10227870383/in/set-72157636828505743/lightbox/


On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> That's very generous of you, Mitch! I have downloaded it for later perusal.
> Are you Polish BTW?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> 
> YNWA
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:04 AM, mitcha at mac.com wrote:
> 
>> Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book 
>> project  of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can 
>> download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here:
>> 
>> http://bit.ly/1asgee0
>> 
>> All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I 
>> like ? this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. 
>> While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in 
>> the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much 
>> congestion, so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly 
>> found that, by having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), 
>> there is so much going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep 
>> track of it all when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because 
>> one has to see things both to the left and the right at the same, and the 
>> angle of view to the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene ? 
>> I mean not looking through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before 
>> bringing the camera up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. 
>> 
>> ?Mitch/Paris
>> 
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