Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here is a selection of highly personal portraits of friends I took in the Sinai desert (Egypt) about a month ago. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/emanuellowi/Dl2009/ Here's the story behind them. On my first picture-taking day in the desert, my Leica MP failed me -- complete malfunction. The camera had just come back from service and -- apparently -- the factory-authorized repairman had done something wrong. For the first time in my career, I'd brought just one camera, with no back-up. I wanted to travel light. So I faced two months of travel with no camera. I resigned myself to recording images with my eyes only. Then, a few days before my travels ended, I met a 21-year-old college student from Iowa, USA, who was travelling with two 35mm film cameras. He agreed to loan me one -- a Canon T70 with 50/1.8 lens -- for a few days. I shot five rolls of film, four were C41 colour negative, one a roll of E6 slide film, during two days. These are my quick selects from the five rolls, scanned commercially at 15 cents a scan. Thank you, Jared. Emanuel