Re: [Leica] ROMAN HOLIDAY

["Bruce R. Slomovitz" <brslomo@erols.com>]

All,

One piece of advice I might offer to those taking photographic vacations in
Italy.  Italy is an expensive country to visit.  Food and accomodations can
really blow your budget.  Of course for travel, a Eurail pass is best.

But what to do with your film.  Of course you don't want to have prints made
over there.  That would be quite expensive and then you would have all those
prints to carry back. Bringing back the exposed, undeveloped film is
probably going to expose it to needless x-ray energy when going thru
security.  Here's the tip.  Go to just about any one hour photo place and
have them develop just the film.  Tell them "solo svilupare," or "solo
svilupo."  It turns out that film development is one of the few bargains in
italy.  It costs just a couple of dollars to get a roll of 36 exposures
developed and I found the work was always first rate.

This way, if your picture of the old men playing bacci in the park doesn't
come out, you know it and can go back the next day and shoot it again.
- -----Original Message-----
From: BenTroGa <BenTroGa@aol.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, March 22, 1998 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] ROMAN HOLIDAY


>My better half and I just returned from North Italy (Milan, Genoa,
Portobello,
>Lucca, Pisa, Siena and surrounding chianti country, Florence, Bologna,
Modena
>(they wouldn't let me in the Ferrari factory, but I could look inside the
>service area, where there were 17 of them, but, no, sir, you cannot take
any
>pictures), and back  to Milan.
>
>The Noctilux/M6 paid for itself with some of the images inside the
cathedrals!
>
>I also took the R8 with two zooms.  Perfect combination.  And lots of
>Ektachrome 200.
>
>I share your thoughts exactly on the nature of the country, the people, and
>the photo opportunities!
>
>Ben Gardner
>