[Leica] Sinai 2012

[scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)]

catgirls is esp. sweet!

the canon T70 was my first slr.
my father bought it for me on one of his trips to tokyo in 1984
from Yodobashi Camera Shop.
i still have a soft spot for it even though it was also my last slr.

here's a photo with it that i took when i was 18 -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/6584792227/
35-70 FD lens
:-)
bharani



Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:00:59 -0400
From: EPL <manolito at videotron.ca>
Subject: [Leica] Sinai 2012
To: lug at leica-users.org
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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


Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:00:59 -0400
From: EPL <manolito at videotron.ca>
Subject: [Leica] Sinai 2012
To: lug at leica-users.org
Message-ID: <CC0A1D0B.11F90%manolito at videotron.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII

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