Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for sharing! On my recent trips I have carried the Leica M2 or the Olympus OM4T, alongside the Fuji X digital. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 9 Apr 2023, at 22:38, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >> >> Behind a paywall :-( >> But I like the title. I have been taking my film cameras with me on >> recent trips. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan > > > Sorry, I didn?t realize that because I have a subscription. I hope WaPo > won?t be too upset if I share the text. > > ?howard > > > My carry-on bag is mostly filled with camera gear. As a travel writer and > photographer <https://www.sebastianmodak.com/>, I have an almost obsessive > need to make sure I have the equipment for any contingency: long lenses in > case I spot a rare parakeet, shorter ones to make sure I get every angle > on every explosive sunset. So when it came time to take my first real > vacation in years, I decided I was going to leave all that gear in my > closet. > > I still wanted memories from the vacation, especially because it was a > special one. I had just gotten married, and this multiday bicycling > journey through Slovenia was to be Maggie?s and my honeymoon. I wanted to > limit how many photos I took with my phone, too. This was going to be an > exercise in mindfulness and being present. Besides trying to break the > associations I had between photography, travel and work, I also wanted to > break my habits of reaching for my phone whenever I saw something remotely > interesting. > > So I dove into the wild world of Facebook Marketplace, combed through a > sea of scams and landed a Canon 35mm film point-and-shoot from the early > 1990s. It wasn?t as cheap as it should have been, a direct result of > various Kardashians being photographed with similar point-and-shoots at > cool parties. It?s the size of a small brick and the shutter makes a sound > not dissimilar to a truck turning into Optimus Prime, but I was happy with > the find. I bought two rolls of film, dropped it all into my now eerily > lightweight carry-on and we were off. > > Readers of a certain age will be rolling their eyes at this point. The > millennial falls for the allure of the retro chic and thinks it?s > revolutionary; we?ve seen this movie before. Fair enough, but this was > meant to disrupt my present, not relive the past. And it worked. > > With just 72 photos in total to take over the course of two weeks, I was > more selective about what I photographed. Then, the camera was back in my > bag and I was back in the moment, rolling through vineyards, taking in the > view alongside my new wife, watching the days disappear. > > When I got the photos developed two months after coming home, flipping > through them was its own joy. They weren?t perfect. A few selfies were > off-kilter and overexposed. An errant eyelash on the lens meant that for > ten photos, it looks like someone took to vandalizing our memories with a > Sharpie. But the imperfections made them even more accurate snapshots of > fleeting moments as they really were. > My favorite photo from that trip was taken in the village of Stanjel after > a long day of cycling. Locking up our bikes at the bottom of town, we > walked up into the grounds of a castle where we tried to find the highest > point. We found it near a watchtower overlooking the densely wooded valley > below. This deserved to be one of the 72. I set up the camera on a nearby > rock and wound up the manual 10-second timer. I sprinted back and got into > position near Maggie, who wrapped her arms around me and kissed my cheek. > With the haphazard angle and the iffy afternoon light, I recognized in the > moment that it was a Hail Mary. Back in New York, I knew as soon as I saw > it that it would forever be a photo that meant more to me than any one of > the thousands of digital photos taken and retaken on so many trips around > the world. > > >> >>> On 9 Apr 2023, at 15:35, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at >>> leica-users.org> wrote: >>> >>> I came upon this in the Washington Post completely by chance just a few >>> minutes after reviewing a few film images from a trip my future wife and >>> I took while we were living in Germany in the early ?80s. >>> >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/film-camera-travel/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_optimist&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F39a5eeb%2F6432b7a353816d1ce09697f6%2F596a9eed9bbc0f0e09ede285%2F14%2F49%2F6432b7a353816d1ce09697f6&wp_cu=be5f733d951a09908e5b5a7798366d12%7C0913A1AB87942652E050007F01006D77 >>> >>> The only part I can?t relate to is not getting his film processed until >>> two months later. >>> >>> ?howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information