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Subject: [Leica] Shan State - Burma Book Project: M9+Summicron-35v4
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:52:06 +0100
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That's very generous of you, Mitch! I have downloaded it for later perusal.
Are you Polish BTW?

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA









On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:04 AM, mitcha at mac.com wrote:

> Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book 
> project  of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can 
> download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here:
> 
> http://bit.ly/1asgee0
> 
> All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I 
> like ? this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. 
> While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in 
> the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much 
> congestion, so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly 
> found that, by having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), 
> there is so much going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep 
> track of it all when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because 
> one has to see things both to the left and the right at the same, and the 
> angle of view to the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene ? I 
> mean not looking through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before 
> bringing the camera up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. 
> 
> ?Mitch/Paris
> 
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