[Leica] What would you take to Peru?

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

You guessed right, Richard!  My Peru photos:
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/120759363
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/120763541
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/109814855

and next, next, next - all M8 photos.

I loved Peru.  Have a great trip!!

Tina

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Richard Man
<richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

> I am going to channel Tina and say
>
> The Leica M9
>
> :-)
>
> I know that the California high altitude Sun makes the sky really blue, so
> I presume same in Peru (same Sun after all). There is some rumor about the
> XPan metering being overexposed at high altitude but I haven't been able to
> confirm that so that may or may not affect your Fujis.
>
> If it is me, I would go for a lightweight great everything camera, e.g. may
> be the M8 with a couple lens (e.g. 21 and a 50?), and then one camera and
> one lens that you know will give you the highest quality image possible,
> even if that weighs a bit more.
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > Since this is sometimes a place for abstraction, I'll pose a
> hypothetical.
> >
> > Assume that you are a male in good physical conditioning.  If you are
> > going traipsing around in the mountains and among ruins in Peru, what
> would
> > you take?  I'm headed out next week.  Usually, no matter where I go, I
> take
> > a Fuji GA645, 20 rolls of 120 film (for b/w), and some small camera for
> > color.  Sometimes a 6x9 Fuji instead of the "little" Fuji.  I've been
> > pretty good at making it work, as Tim Gunn would say.
> >
> > Aside from Macchu Picchu, I think I can improvise with about anything.
> >  But up on the mountain (a place where I probably will never return),
> what
> > are the conditions like? Any weird-color light that screws with exposure
> > meters (like in the desert)?  Any particular filtration?  Were I to
> deviate
> > from my normal packing, there would be a lot of choices (these are the
> > *realistic* ones...)
> >
> > Fuji GA645 (=35mm)
> > - small, light, flawless
> >
> > Fuji GL690 (with 50, 100 and/or 180mm lenses)
> > - heavy as hell, but the 50mm has eye-burning resolution
> > - wants a separate meter
> > - would require 40 rolls of film
> >
> > X100 (=35mm)
> > - very lightweight, some ability to use grad NDs
> >
> > D700 (I can cover anything from 17 to 300mm)
> > - heavy, fast, able to shoot in any light.  Great for ND grads
> >
> > Leica M8 (21 to 90mm)
> > - Not bad for all purposes, but a little heavy
> >
> > Nex-5 (16mm or 18-55 lenses).
> > - kills the X100 in shooting speed. Not bad at taking pictures, either.
> > Excels at HD video.
> > - somewhere, in a drawer, I have the superwide lens adapter
> >
> > Neither film nor batteries nor supplies are really an issue. If I took a
> > GL690, I would grab a cheaper 50mm (=21mm) finder than my Universal
> > Wideangle Finder M, but other than that, this will be off the shelf.  I
> > would not take two heavy cameras, but aside from that, the sky is the
> > limit. As I would imagine at 10,000 feet.
> >
> > Ideas?  I usually go on gut instinct the day before, but I do like to
> hear
> > different perspectives.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dante
> >
> > ____________
> > Dante Stella
> > http://www.dantestella.com
> >
> > NO ARCHIVE
> >
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>
> --
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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