Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great Stuff Emanuel! It is really unexpected a fail on the MP and you was lucky to have another camera Thanks foe sharing cheers Lluis El 22/06/2012, a las 19:00, EPL escribi?: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information