Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

I was pointed to the fact that... today is the first anniversary of the Pass the RF -part 3- project!

What a year it was. The travelling FED made its way through Holland and into Germany, to be moved off to Uzbekistan as soon as it arrived. In Uzbekistan it encountered a thief's swift fingers and had to be replaced by its twin. Its travails in Uzbekistan didn't end there; little FED wasn't allowed out of the country and had to be smuggled out. Back in Europe things didn't fair much better with Customs holding the little camera ransom on several occasions. After criss-crossing mainland Europe, the FED is now crawling through the English countryside.

So, what will the second year bring? Hopefully lots of photos, which have been lacking in the past year a bit. :) Hopefully also more sights of exotic countries and people. And let's keep our fingers crossed the FED will travel a little faster. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

I'm happy to report that Tom will get the travelling FED on the road again. Delays are inevitable: sometimes life just gets in the way of our best intentions and best laid out plans.

As Alkis posted:

Just an update for the thread - I've been contacted by Tom and he's putting the camera through the post possibly tomorrow, by Monday/Tuesday it should be with me. I plan to fondle..eh, use the camera for a week to ten days or so and then forward it to the next in line. Photos should be available shortly thereafter.

If anyone for any reason you can't shoot the camera within a reasonable time, just move the camera on to the next on the list. I can always put you on a later edition of this project. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

It has been a while since we last heard from the camera. The camera made its way into and out of Norway successfully. The travelling FED is now in the UK since before X-mas.

Please people, keep the camera moving!

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The camera is in Norway but Eric is having some trouble with the Norwegian Customs office. Here's what was written on the subject.

EricFive:

The camera has arrived in Norway with custom problems. They are asking me for a receipt of the purchase or a copy of my bank account and I havent paid anything

Need some info from the original owner so I have sent RML a PM. Hopefully I will have it at the beginning of next week.

OdDbaLL:

Having had numerous run-ins with the Norwegian Customs myself I offer you my sincere condolences. I've had luck asking the sender to write a letter explaining that the item is of a low value. Hope it all works out. I'm next!

This is yet another little setback for our travelling FED-2! But if we can get the camera out of Uzbekistan; we can get it into Norway!

To the Customs officer handling Eric's case: please, be so kind to let the camera through. This is just a fun project where people who know each other only from the rangefinderforum pass a little cheap camera from one person to another. It's a way of bonding, a way to get to know each other a little better, a way for people in faraway places to cross oceans and cultures. The camera is mine and will ultimately return to me again too.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Ondrej posted some his results on his Spyderman blog. He got some nice shots with the travelling FED. My personal favourites are the following.

(c) Ondrej Pok.

(c) Ondrej Pok.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

It seems the travelling FED-2 has arrived in Sweden! Whoohoo! I'm very glad it did.

Now, when will we see some of the photos from Uzbekistan and Slovakia...? :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The travelling FED-2 has made its way out of Uzbekistan and into Slovakia! Ondrej has this to say about it:

Hi all,

just picked the camera at the customs office. Another disgusting experience with the customs officers, but fortuantely they gave it to me without paying anything. Thank God. It's been there since last week, but I was on a hiking trip in Romania, so only now I had time to pick it up.

The camera itself is pretty ugly and the lens is full of dried out grease - almost like it just came from an Uzbekused camera dealer But I'll take care of that. It'll be an honour for me, since quite a few people will be using it after me.

Philipp was so kind that he added a present for me - a Zorki 6. Also in pretty bad shape, but restoring is a part of the fun Thanks a lot.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Philipp reported back! Woohoo, the travelling FED-2 is once again on its way!

(c) Philipp Reichmuth.

The FED should be on its way, flown out of the country this morning to Switzerland. A friend from the university of Berne has taken it and agreed to send it on to Spyderman. I haven't heard from her yet, but in case there is a hassle I'll keep you updated, and in case there isn't we can just wait for it to arrive in Slovakia.

Glad to have gotten that off my heart finally! The new FED has already seen some adventure Given the considerable amount of time passed, I suggest in the future we should really follow up on Remy's suggestion and ask the next person via PM or e-mail before we send the camera on...

Yes, and here's a couple of pictures from the second roll

(c) Philipp Reichmuth.

(c) Philipp Reichmuth.

(c) Philipp Reichmuth.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The travelling FED-2 was almost on its way from Uzbekistan! But once again, Fate decided differently.

I have run into unexpected trouble again, this time with the authorities. I spent about two hours today at the post and customs offices trying to post a package to Slovakia. I was told repeatedly that it is forbidden to export cameras (first time I heard that) and to export antiquities (meaning everything over fifty years). I spent some time arguing that (a) it's a late model FED-2 younger than fifty years, and (b) it's absurd to forbid somebody from exporting a camera when it says on the customs declaration filled out on arrival that he had this camera with him on entry!! But they wouldn't hear me - fishing for bribes I assume. I can't really blame them for that, as they are paid about fifty dollars a month and you need two hundred to feed a family, but then again I refuse to support starving public officials by greasing the system with my own money, as I'm not a charitable foundation but a guy living on a PhD grant.

The official version is that in order to export this FED, I need to get an expertise from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage that this particular camera does not constitute an item of national significance, that it was made in 1958 or later, and that I am not supporting any problematic political organisations by exporting it. So basically now I am stuck here with this FED I can't get out of the country. I'll try and find a solution to this new little problem over the next days; maybe I can get some embassy people to take it with them as diplomats' luggage and then send it on from their respective home countries.

In many ways the Soviet Union is still alive here, it's only less sucessful, but just as oppressive. I suppose every now and then one needs a reminder why it's not the best country to work in.

Philipp, I hope all will end well some day. Take your time. That FED-2 will one day continue its journey. Keep heart.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Philipp reports back! The travelling FED-2 might be on its way again some day soon! :)

Tashkent is an excellent place for picking up FSU cameras - good choice, and prices are still comparatively low! I've picked up a number of cameras on Friday, all but one of which will be sent away (read _this thread_ for my enthusiasm about the one that won't... ;))

The new FED-2 looks good. It has its little stiffnesses, but Spyderman already wrote that he can take care of that, so RML put the list together in this order rather prophetically :) I've just finished a roll of XP2 and will give that to the lab tomorrow, to see how camera and lens are doing.

However, to top it off I got a call five minutes ago from my Armenian collector-salesman, who says that he'll get another beautiful like-new FED-2 in the course of this week - this man clearly knows about gear acquisition syndrome. So eventually I might even have two FED-2s to choose from... I might be going to the mountains next weekend, so there might be some more pictures coming, and I hope I can get the nicer of both in a yak string, brown paper package on its way to Slovakia early next week or so. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

As you know, the travelling FED-2 got stolen in Tashkent but it seems Philipp has been able to find a replacement camera, also in Tashkent. :)

OK, here's an update. I spent some two hours today drinking tea and chatting with my Armenian contact here, time very well spent. I've got an offer for three cameras. The first is a Drug for myself, serial number 6102830, looks mint, with leather case and a beautiful J-8 (for $60). The second is a Zorki-5, the model with square window and red engraving, serial number 5816836, with an I-50 for Spyderman. The third is the next Pass-the-RF camera, a FED-2 with self timer, serial number 3446293, with an Industar-26 52/2.8 lens. Quite similar to the original camera, with self-timer added, and the camera looks in nice shape. I have to tell him tomorrow if I'll take the cameras, but I probably will.

He deals in cameras and has a nice collection. We chatted a bit and I saw a few things I hadn't seen before. There were some spy cameras (my favourite was built into a 1980s digital wristwatch, takes round film chips with 1 inch diameter and comes with a small suitcase with a complete development kit), a Narciss (subminiature SLR with interchangeable lenses and finder, very nice) and a TSVVS (#377, I don't know how genuine it was, but it definitely did look nice and if it was a fake, it was a good one). If anyone of the RFF crowd ever comes to Tashkent, this is a guy worth visiting. It helps if you speak a little Russian, though

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Our busy friend Pherdinand has seen time to scan a bit and posted the following photo. I love it, Csab'.

(c) Csaba Jozsa.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

And the unfortunate travelling FED's story continued....

Hi,

so here's a little update from dusty and hot Tashkent. I've been to Yangiobod flea market today looking at cameras; there were about four FED-2s, several Zorki-4s (one of them an rather obviously fake "50 Years of the Soviet Union" model), several FED-5s, a Zorki-1, a Zorki-6, and a number of Kievs and Zenits. So it's no problem getting a camera. Many of the cameras on display are in rather bad shape (dirty bodies, wrinkled shutter curtains from lying in the sun at 35 degrees every weekend, ...) so there was nothing that I would have bought right away, but I've got a couple of phone numbers. Incidentally, if any of you needs a bust of Lenin or a wall carpet with "Proletarians unite" embroidered on it in Uzbek, this is the place to go.

I met the Armenian guy again from whom I bought my Kiev-88, he amazingly enough recognised me after three years and we got into chatting about rangefinders and he mentioned that he had a FED-2 and a couple of Zorkies in good shape at home as well as a Drug in like new condition (he says). On display he had a FED-10 (first time I saw that in the flesh), a couple of Zenits and binoculars and a Sverdlovsk-4 meter. He discouraged me from the late Zorkies, saying that their wind mechanism is "capricious" and that the older, simpler ones are the most reliable. Hmm. I don't know his price ideas yet, the Kiev 88 back then was pretty reasonable at $150 for the whole kit, but then times have changed and I've got to see the camera anyway. However, he seems to know his stuff and I've good experience with a camera from him. So I've got his phone number, too, and will visit him in the course of this week.

I can of course just buy the Drug and ship it round. Or another FED-2 for that matter. But it would be good to have feedback from Remy and RFF on that.

Philipp

Philipp emailed me to ask what to do. I suggested that if he can find a FED-2 (or a Zorki, as I don't have one yet :) ) in Tashkent, he get it, shoot it and send it on its way again. I'm too curious to see the photos from Tashkent. :)

Philipp, good luck! I know things will turn out right for the camera. I just hope you are OK. That's what matters most.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Update time again! I've been out-of-office for a while and in the meantime a few things happened to the travelling FED-2! Ready? Here it goes, quoted straight from Philipp's entry in the travelling Fed's thread on the rangefinderforum....

I've got some BAD NEWS for this project. While shopping (and photographing) on Chorsu bazaar here in Tashkent I had my bag stolen with the FED in it (and some other mildly important stuff, but that doesn't matter in this context). So the camera and the roll of film I had in there are now in the hands of an unknown guy somewhere in Uzbekistan (who's probably bothered and had hoped for more). This irks me a lot.

Now in order to get this thing going again, we need to get a new camera in circulation, and I think it's my responsibility to do so. Basically I have three options:

Option A is that Tashkent has a huge Sunday flea market where people sell all sorts of Soviet stuff. There is usually a guy or two selling cameras, I bought my Kiev 88 there from an Armenian guy for a very reasonable price. I can go there on Sunday and try to get a replacement FSU rangefinder, but I can't guarantee it's going to be a FED-2. (Incidentally, the FED-2 is a great camera.)

Option B is that the next guy on the list is Ondrej in Bratislava. In Slovakia it should be possible to get an FSU camera relatively easy, so we could skip the shipping from here and just continue with the next guy on the list. Maybe Ondrej could look for a replacement camera and I can try to wire him the money via Western Union or PayPal. (I can't do international money orders from here, unfortunately.)

Option C is that I ask my beautiful wife at home in Berlin to send my own Canonet GIII QL17 to Ondrej. Not an FSU camera, though. I would have her send my Zorki-6, but that one eats film.

Since I wanted to go to the flea market anyway, if we don't reach a consensus until Sunday I think I'll just go for option A, and if there is no suitable camera we can still think about something else. Let me hear what you think!

Philipp (This Pass-the-RF turns into a real adventure...)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Nick not only kindly created the Flickr account but he also uploaded his photos there. I'll show you my favourites among those.

Meeuwerderweg, Groningen, 2007 - (c) Nick Meertens.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8

Oosterhaven, Groningen, 2007 - (c) Nick Meertens.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8

Oosterhaven, Groningen, 2007 - (c) Nick Meertens.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - Flickr account

There's now a Flickr account available for the participants of the third Pass the RF project. Go to Flickr and look up account passtherangefinder3, or just follow this link:

Passtherangefinder3 on Flickr

I'll inform every participant of the login ID and password, so everyone can upload his or her photos for this project. I'll keep an eye on the photos there and I'll be posting my favourites here on the "Pass the RF - part 3" blog.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Yesterday, Phillip received the travelling FED-2 in Germany. Nick had sent it by priority mail and the Dutch Mail came through. :) The FED-2 has now crossed borders for the first time. And soon it'll cross even more borders to end up in Uzbekistan, where Phillip is taking it.

Because the box is too big to go in his luggage, Phillip kindly took some photos of the box. Why? When I was preparing the FED-2 to go travelling, I prepared a box for it as a little home. Of course, I still had to shoot the FED-2 myself, so I put the box to the side. When it was time to send the FED-2 on its way, I found the box missing! A box missing? Where did it go? Nowhere to be found, I finally asked my daughter (who's 9 by now and much bigger than the last time, Csab' :) ) if she knew the whereabouts of the box. She did, amazingly. She had used it as a bed or so for her Barbie dolls and toy bears. She had draw images on the in side of the box. I was a bit in a hurry, so I ended up sending the decorated and soon-to-be-abandoned box.

So, for posterity's sake, here are the final photos of the box and the drawings. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - photo blog

Instead of waiting for a special gallery becoming available on RFF, I created the "Pass the RF - part 3" blog. You've come to it. :) I hope to be able to post photos from all participants here.

The travelling FED-2 is accompanied by a log book. I hope each and every participant will write something in the log. When (if?) the FED-2 ever comes back to me, I'll copy the contents of the log here on the blog. Of course, everyone can leave comments here on the blog in addition to the log. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Yesterday, Huub sent the camera on its way and today already Csaba reports receiving the camera (at least the mailman left it at his neighbour's). :) Huub also posted his Pass the RF photos on his Flickr.

Of the photos Huub posted I like the following two.

Surfacing submarine - (c) Huub Linthorst.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8
film unknown; shutter time 1/100 sec; aperture: f8

Polder- (c) Huub Linthorst.
Fed-2
Industar I-26m 52/2.8
film unknown; shutter time 1/200 sec; aperture: f8

The third Pass the RF is now really under way! :)

Late signing up?
BTW, after the sign-up was closed (and the camera already in the mail), a few more people asked to join. I'm sorry to say that that is impossible. I can't change the camera's itinerary without much trouble and effort. What I can do, though, is to send the FED-2 on a new Pass the RF once it has returned to me (in a year or so). So, if you want to reserve a spot on the next list, PM me on the rangefinderforum, send me an email or leave a comment to this post. The more the merrier, and also the more likely I'll send the FED-2 on its way again. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The little FED-2 arrived safely in Leiden and is now on its way to Groningen. Huub seemed to have enjoyed the experience, judging from his post in the third Pass the RF project thread. :)

BTW, we still don't have a private gallery. Stephen, the new owner of RFF, isn't up to date with all the past and current projects on RFF (and who can blame him). I've explained to him the hows and whys of the project and I hope he'll set aside a private gallery for us one of these days. Fingers crossed! But if it doesn't work out, we can always create a gallery somewhere else.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The third Pass the RF project is really under way since yesterday and already today the first recipient has taken possession of the camera! Huub is running film through the FED-2 as we speak. Soon Huub will send the camera on to Csab', and Csab' on to Nick. The camera could actually leave Holland before the end of the month! :)

In the meantime I've been scanning my roll of Lucky SHD400. I am as unfamiliar with the FED-2 as most of you, and I had to get used to guestimating shutter speeds and apertures. Not an easy task for someone who hardly has to do so with an R-D1. :) But I managed and I got a few nice results. And a few that were totally unexpected. Unexpected in a sense that they were nothing I had figured beforehand and at first sight a waste of film. On second sight, though, they seemed to speak to me in an unfamiliar but alluring voice. Siren's call? You can tell me after you've seen the scans. :)

All the photos below were taken with a FED-2 plus Industar-26m, on Lucky SHD400 iso400 B&W film. Shutter time and aperture are unknown. The film was developed in caffenol with the aid of my daughter. I stuck to the recipe I had used before, hoping that it would over-develop this iso400 film. Things worked out quite OK. The caffenol seems to give rather nice and small grain. The results look very smooth and scan rather well. The photos suffer a little from drying marks. I really should get some distilled water for the final rinse.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

I sent the camera on its way! I was just in time back home from work to get the box and rush off to the post office. The camera is now on its way to the first recipient, HuubL.

Huub, let us know in the third Pass the RF project thread when you receive the camera, and when you send it on again! :)

It's for real now, people! Let's enjoy it!

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Due to life's interfering with my best-laid plans (see my post of my day out with my daughter), I was unable to get the camera on its way today. The camera's departure may have been delayed but it's definitely not cancelled! Soon the camera will be travelling!

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

It's February 28 and the itinerary for the third Pass the RF project is published (see link). After a a few stops in Holland, the camera will travel to Norway, Slovakia and Germany before embarking on a round trip through the UK. After jumping back over the Channel to France, the camera will see action in Spain and Italy. From Italy, the camera will travel halfway around the world to Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The final leg of the trip is Australia, after which the camera will return back home to me. :)

I'm guessing it'll take a year (deducing from the experience with the first Pass the RF project) before I see the camera back. In the camera's shipping box I'll put a small notebook. The participants can leave a message, anecdotes, scraps, etc. in this notebook. I think it'll be fun to read people's experiences with the camera. And of course there'll be the photos.

So, the list is ready. The camera is nearly so. I'll send it on its way today or tomorrow (providing life doesn't keep interfering with my plans).

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

All but one of the participants have provided me with their address details. I'm making the itinerary as we speak. :) I've also loaded the FED-2 with some Lucky iso400 B&W film and taken the first shots of this project. I've still got the start of the camera's trip planned for February 28, 2007.

It's almost time, people! The camera will soon seek its way across Eurasia to Australia and (hopefully) back to me in a year's time. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The signup is closed for the third Pass the RF project. In the last minute one more participant joined but another had to get out. Nico, welcome! Jonas, sorry you can't participate.

So, the list is 23 strong. I'm waiting for the address details of 2 or 3 participants. As soon as I receive those, I can finalise the camera's itinerary. Then I can also set a departure date.

All in all, the project is now really in the final preparational stages.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - FINAL NOTICE

In only a few hours the sign-up for the third Pass the RF project closes. You have until midnight tonight (GMT)!

I'll draw up the final list tomorrow, prepare the itinerary for the camera, and inform every participant.

If you are a participant and you haven't PM'd me your address details, please do so as soon as possible.

And if you didn't know it already, the votes decided on the FED-2 for this project.

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

It's almost closing time! If you are a member of RFF and you're not from the Americas, you can still sign up until midnight February 18 (GMT).

There are now 23 participants. Many are from the UK, Holland and Australia. We have some from SE Asia and the rest of Europe. But we still could use some people from Russia, Central Asia and, especially, Africa. There's not a single participant from that continent.

Don't be shy. It's a fun project to be part of. There's little pressure, except for sending on the camera in a reasonable time. And it's simply a cool notion that a single camera passed through so many different hands and lands, and to see the photos taken by those hands in those lands. :)

So, come on and join the third Pass the RF!

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

The poll I held made it pretty clear. Instead of the neat little Canon Canonet 28 (for which I can't get any batteries anymore), the participants voted to have the FED-2 take the ride. This one:



I hope you guys know what you're in for. :) I'm just thinking what kind of film I'll slam into it. I still have some Lucky SHD400 B&W film. I think that would do well with the Industar-26M lens. Or maybe I'll just take the easy way out and get me some C41 B&W film and have it developed at my local mini lab. Scanning the negatives will take enough time as it is, and I'm not that good at developing film anyway. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3 - UPDATE

Twenty rangefinderforum members have so far signed up for the third Pass the RF project.

UPDATE 14:10: we now have 21 particpants

I've set the closing date to midnight 18 Februari (GMT). Until then, you can still sign up. This third "Pass the RF" project is open to rangefinderforum members from Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Don't worry, the Americans haven't been excluded because we don't like them. :) They've been excluded because there's already a "Pass the RF" project with mostly Americans on the list. This third project is to offer a chance to non-Americans to do such a project. You Americans are too quick on the draw for us! :)

So, the sign-up closes midnight 18 February (GMT). In the meantime, the participants are sending me their addresses. I'll prepare the camera's itinerary from that information and I'll try to have to camera take flight before the end of February.

Oddly enough, this third project might be finished even before the very first "Pass the RF" is! That one is still in California, still has 26 participants to go, still has to go to the frozen north of Canada! :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography

Pass the RF - part 3

Almost two years ago, the first "Pass the rangefinder" project started on rangefinderforum. In short, a camera is send all over the world, from one member to another, until it gets back to its owner. The photos are posted in a dedicated "Pass the rangefinder" gallery. The camera hasn't arrived back at its owner yet. There are still some 25 participants to go, which might take another year. :)

Over the past couple of years, many people have asked to join the original "Pass" while it was already underway. A day ago, RFF member Gabriel M.A. started a second "Pass the rangefinder" project. That one was limited to 30 participants. All the seats were taking in a flash. The moment of posting was awkward for most RFF members not in the Americas and the final list is mostly populated with our friends from the USA.

Bad luck for everyone else. And reason for me to start a third "Pass the rangefinder" project. This one is open to those RFF members not from the Americas. This will give members from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and Oceania a chance to participate in this fun, worldwide project.

So, if you feel like taking part, and if you are a member of RFF, why not join up? Just post you're "I'm in" in the thread. :)

Technorati Tags : FED-2 rangefinder Shards of Photography