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Pictures OF tourists in the city.<br><br>

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- distilled water for the last rinse<br>

- carefully wipe excess water after hanging to dry<br>

but before that:<br>

- spray water with a brumisator to humidify the air in the room. It may slow down the drying a little bit, but it will precipitate the dust.<br>

Boiling the water prior to mixing it has the effect of extracting the little amount of air is always diluted in the liquid. Ask your gold fish what I am talking about. I am not sure how longer a solution will keep with this trick, but I doubt it can have any adverse effect.

 

Regarding the idea of using wine containers, I do the same, and I have found it a great excuse for indulging myself with a little glass every now and again. It's only because I need the damn container, you know ;-)

Some part of a building designed by Frank O. Gehry such as the Gugenheim museum of Bilbao ?

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Regit,

 

I like how all the curves in the picture nicely combine with the man bent on the bench. Nice one.

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Again<br>

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I just bought a bottle of Drysonal - a Tetenal alcohol based liquid

that accelerates the drying of films. I could not find any

information on what to do with the product after you use it. Do you

pour it back to the bottle ? Dump it ? How do you know that it is

exhausted ? Thanks for your tips and comments on the use of this

product.

Bertrand

I had been missing the capability of creating masks on any kind of layer in PE2, until I learned about this easy workaround: Let's say you want to selectively blurr areas of a picture. Duplicate the bacground layer. Between the two layers, insert a levels layer. Do not modify the levels. Its here only so you can use its mask. Apply a gaussian blur to the top layer. Group it with the layer below - i.e. the adjustment layer. Now you can paint into the mask and select where you want to remove the blur. You could get the same result whithout a mask, but it easier to make changes to a mask than to a whole picture.

Acros is definitely worth trying.

Ben,

 

I live in Paris and subscribe 100% to what Laurence says about pickpocket techniques. I often roam the city, including areas with lots of tourists and also most probably pickpockets. I keep my M7 straped around my wrist, and hide the two in a Domke-like bag hanging from the shoulder. I always have the camera in hand and bringing it to eye level is very quick, yet my look remains 'low-profile'. Or so I believe ;-)

 

I'll be glad to meet you at a café, if I am around. Send me an email with details on where and when you intend to be.

 

Bertrand

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Stephen,

 

There is a very valid moral basis for not wasting money, and I support your idea of giving the price difference to charity. I am just surprised that considering the difficulties that Leica is going through, and that this forum is usually more than loyal to the brand, no one suggested that giving $500 to Leica for no added value is precisely that - charity ;-)

I have had the same problem twice on different cameras, both times with the batteries that came with the body. Not only they did not last for very long, but the cold killed them very quickly. It did not reoccur with replacement ones. It seems like the batteries that manufacturers put into their products is of poor durability.

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I live close to the Eiffel tower. Does a particular monument inspire

you ?<div></div>

street kid in Jodhpur<div></div>

Giorgia Fiorio - Legio Patria Nostra, and others.

In the train to Jodphur<div></div>