Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/17
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Dante,
Good travel tips. I just spent the hols in Asia with family,
and made do quite nicely with a Hexar RF and 35mm VC Ultron.
That plus film, travel docs, airplane essentials etc. all fit
snugly into a Domke 803 satchel, which I ditched in the room
when out on walkabout. My shoulders, back and family were grateful,
and it was liberating to be confined to one lens. But you can't
please everybody: in a laid-back fishing village on one of the
outer islands of Hong Kong, a local old-timer walked up and asked
if I had a Leica -- when he saw that it wasn't, he kind of snorted
and walked away.
rgds
Peter Choy.
P.S. The solo camera gambit is, as noted in other posts, also a gamble.
Not recommended for weddings. Asia is full of dust, and is the spiritual
home of Murphy's law. Once I had a CLE get jammed, and another time a IIIf
hung up on me. Happily, each time I stopped in HK, which is one of the
better places on the planet to have dodgy old cameras fixed on the spot
(note to self: don't rely solely on dodgy old cameras -- open mind to
using dodgy new cameras).
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>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Users digest)
>To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Leica Users digest V21 #252
>Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 3:38 AM
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:59:13 -0500
> From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu>
> Subject: [Leica] New article on travel tips.
> Message-ID: <B86BC450.AD58%dante@umich.edu>
> References:
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> I have assembled what I have learned about travel photography so far ("How
> to survive a trip with your camera") at
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> http://www.dantestella.com/technical/travel.html
>
> I tend to think the issues discussed there apply very much to the
> rangefinder type of person. I hope someone finds it useful. Took long
> enough to write...
>
> Cheers
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> Dante Stella
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