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Subject: [Leica] Shan State - Burma Book Project: M9+Summicron-35v4
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 04:17:19 -0800
References: <D3A64812-360D-4FAE-ADBC-659FC76C8B51@mac.com>

Mitcha, are there a lot of Chinese in Myanmar now? I notice quite a number
of stores have signs in Chinese.


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, <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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