Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dans un courrier daté du 19/11/01 12:41:49 Paris, Madrid, KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu a écrit : > score: desert 2, me 0 > > my nikon 28-70 died a slow, miserable, grinding death yesterday. the zoom > ring has come detatched from whatever component made it function and now, > whenever you turn it, there is a grinding noise and desert sand comes out > from beneath the ring, tinged dark brown with some oil. leica's more-or-less > in operation, but i noticed yesterday when changing lenses that the camera > body is full of sand. i wonder what this will do to my film ... i'm also > paranoid about my film getting fogged on the way out -- what's the cairo > x-ray machine going to do to it ... i've tried to get hand inspections > everywhere so far, but sofar, no one has let me with the exception of on > the ground here in egypt -- you need to pass through one to get into the > egyptian museum and i just pushed my film over the top and nobody said > anything. we're leaving tomorrow so the loss of the nikon isn't that great. > i also noticed yesterday that the rubber covering the metal has come loose > on one side and there's lots of sand stuck to the glue underneath. certianly > this has been quite a workout for my cameras ... yesterday we went to see > zahi open a tomb in al materia which is the middle-of-nowhere egypt. still, > even half an hour out from city central the locals were absolutely fabulous, > everybody was eager to help us. the tomb was discovered when a local man > tried to build a house on a vacant lot -- about 15 feet below the surface > he struck large stone blocks which turned out to be roof vaulting for a > greco roman tomb with two sarcophagi and three chambers. i photographed > the media swarm around zahi and some of the hundreds of on-lookers, this > will nicely tie up my article and it will be sad to go home, but, as i'm > rapidly running out of cameras, it's about time. > > ramadan is going along nicely here. people seem a little anxious around > midday and it's impossible to get a taxi around 5:00 as everybody's home > for iftar, but everybody seems happy to be alive. > > linda and i celebrated iftar with some egyptian friends last night and then > stayed out on the nile chatting until about midnight. upon returning home > we came across a group of about eight soldiers with AK-47's in the park > across from our house. as we approached, they stood up and yelled at us > (apprehensive yet?) .... "hello! welcome in egypt!" "are you having a > good time?" "let us know if we can be of any help to you!" -- i don't know > what was stranger, coming across a group of guys with machine guns in a > park at midnight, or the fact that it was a super FRIENDLY group of guys > with guns. > > saw one bessa-r at the pyramids in the hands of a german tourist and > ran into an archeologist at giza with a iiic. other than that, i haven't > really seen much in the way of cameras. bunch of nikons at the Big Media > Thing yesterday. an FM and some new thing. > > we certianly feel extraordinarily safe here. it's a great place, you > should all visit -- but keep your camera in an ewa marine bag. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Heelloo Kyle . I've done a lot of photo in the deserts of Africa and used supermarket plastic bags to cover them . Sand gets everywhere , and we can just limit its desaster . I haven't found your shoe size on my Air base but keep looking . Jo Goodtimes , France - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html