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Subject: [Leica] [IMG] Erekocha Festival, Miyazaki
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:04:41 +0530
References: <56A05901-94CF-4780-B434-CE12F9B7707E@yahoo.co.uk>

Peter,
Nice set. Those drummers remind me of  Richard Man's photos - are they the
same type?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Here's a short slideshow of 13 images from Miyazaki's summer Erekocha
> Festival.  Erekocha is local slang for 'Wow!"  Miyazaki, a mainly rural
> area, has had a difficult summer due to a foot and mouth outbreak among 
> cows
> and pigs, requiring wide scale slaughter of livestock.  The crisis is now
> over, but the economic effects are estimated to run to 235 billion yen over
> the next 5 years.
>
> The locals were in need of a festival.  Dancing in traditional summer
> clothes holding fans, taiko drums, local food stalls, syrupy shaved ice for
> the tots, ice cream for the little old grannies, beer and shochu for the
> mums & dads.
>
> www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157624954499888/show/
>
> All photos were taken with a 35mm Asph. 'Cron on an M8.
>
> Unfortunately, there is a pixel-fine line running the width of almost every
> image, to the left of the centre when looking at a horizontal image, or to
> the bottom when looking at a vertical image.  I had the sensor replaced
> about 4 months ago.  The line is more obvious on the evening images, taken
> at 640 ISO.  I don't fancy sending this camera off to Solms again,
> especially since new laws in Japan mean I'd have to pay tax on a returned
> repaired item to the same extent as I would have to pay for the import of a
> brand new camera.  I think I'll have to e-mail some sample images to Solms
> and see what they say.  I'm vaguely hoping the problem will just go away,
> but that doesn't seem likely.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem?  Did it just go away?
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
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Replies: Reply from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] [IMG] Erekocha Festival, Miyazaki)
In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] [IMG] Erekocha Festival, Miyazaki)