Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] Sinai 2012
From: dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:21:26 -0400
References: <CC0A1D0B.11F90%manolito@videotron.ca>

These are really great pictures and demonstrate that a good photographer 
could shoot with a box Brownie and still deliver the goods.

Dante

On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:00 PM, EPL wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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