Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Basic rule, never embark on a trip with new gear you're not familiar with ? Else, kudos on your dedication Tina. I supported a NGO a friend (whom Geoff met when here) who is an ophthalmologist and had set up a medical center in Mexico - I have an insight of how demanding it may sometimes be. Bravo! Amities Philippe Le 5 juil. 2014 ? 18:58, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> a ?crit : > PESO: > > I am back from a week in Honduras. After over 25 years of making several > trips a year taking medical brigades to Honduras and Guatemala, I retired > in 2009 and haven't been back since. This was a special trip to > investigate the possibility of building a permanent eye clinic to do > cataract surgery in Trinidad de Copan, Honduras. There were only three of > us on this trip, an eye doctor who has been many times, the coordinator who > has planned many trips, and me. We met up with another medical group of 19 > people from Virginia and traveled to several remote villages with them. I > learned to use an auto-refractor and examined almost 300 people, giving out > glasses when we had appropriate prescriptions. The auto-refractor was fun > and very helpful but it kept me busy from dawn until dark and I didn't get > to take as many photos as usual. > > I was very tempted to throw the Fuji X-Pro across the room several times. > Every time I picked it up, something on the camera had changed. Operator > error, I know, but very, very frustrating. The little switch on the front > got moved to M for manual focus, +/- for exposure got changed, the aperture > ring on those lenses with one would move drastically, the manual focus ring > on the 14/2.8 would slip backward, turning off the auto-focus. I got so > paranoid that I didn't trust the camera without checking every setting and > by that time my photo would be gone. I ended up using the M240 and MM much > more than the Fuji and I had thought it would be the opposite. > > The other thing that was extremely frustrating was that we had 21 > photographers on the trip. Everybody had a digital camera or phone or iPad > and everybody was taking photos constantly. I had a hard time getting any > photos without other photographers in them. The people posed and then > wanted to see their photos on the back of the camera. One three-year old > took my camera and slid her finger across the screen to make the photo > change. When it didn't, she started pushing the buttons to view the > photos. The last time I was in Honduras, most people had never even seen a > digital camera. I think I retired at the right time. > > I'm downloading photos now and should have some to post next week. The > garden needs weeding and the lawn needs mowing so photos are down the list > of priorities today! > > We identified over 60 patients who need cataract surgery and will begin > fund-raising for the clinic next week. We hope to do our first surgeries > in March. > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information