Welcome back! Glad you had a good trip. And glad that the altitude solutions so
many of us worked on after last year's trip were successful!
Moose
"Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>I'm back, having been gone to Bolivia for most of this month. Had a great
>trip and brought back a bunch of pictures.
>
>I just got a chance today to look at the last TOPE, and there are some great
>pictures there.
>
>We were on the move a lot in Bolivia, so a lot of my pictures were taken
>with an Olympus RC (slides), and the MJU 2.8 (prints). I took only the OM2s
>for an slr, and it worked perfectly. Only once did it lock up with dead
>batteries, and I had extras of course. Obviously the shutter release must
>have been pushed in the luggage sometime.( I don't bother with the red
>settings) Almost all pics with the 2s were taken with 35mm and 50mm lens,
>and a vivitar 17mm. I never had the 28mm on the camera. I wished I had taken
>the 100mm.
>
>For slide film I ran Kodak Elitechrome 100 EC. Got back 8 rolls of it today,
>and I am very happy with the results. For prints I used Fuji 200, and picked
>up some Agfa Vista 100 in Bolivia. Agfa seems to be popular there. It was a
>new film for me, but gave excellent results. All films were scanned multiple
>times in the airports in Bolivia, US and Canada (in carry-on luggage), but I
>can see no fogging at all.
>
>We were mostly at 10 to 11 thousand foot altitude, so I used an 81a and 81b
>filter quite a bit to counter the UV bluish effect, and it seemed to work
>very well. The things I've learned on this list the last couple of years
>really helped me a lot to bring back the pics I wanted. Now I have to put
>together a slide show for this Sunday.
>
>Wayne Culberson
>
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