[Leica] Honduras Report

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Thanks, but that's why I got the camera over a month ago and have taken 860
photos with it!  I had not taken it on a mission trip, however, and that's
really the only way to test it - in the field.  I found out that riding
over rough roads in the back of a pick-up truck and encountering lots of
curious children have an adverse affect on this camera!

Tina


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Philippe <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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> >
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