UK Region RFF EuroMeet 2011, London

I am a brand new member pf the forum and havn't got a rangefinder camera yet. I would like to come along to see what everyone else is shooting with.
I am currently in Australia, but will be back in the UK at the end of April. I hope I will be welcome even if I am shooting with a DSLR.
 
Nikonsnapper said:
I am a brand new member pf the forum and havn't got a rangefinder camera yet. I would like to come along to see what everyone else is shooting with.
I am currently in Australia, but will be back in the UK at the end of April. I hope I will be welcome even if I am shooting with a DSLR.
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I might not bring a RF either.
I do however have a Leica CL body for sale🙂

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema
 
I'm popping out to London this coming Saturday to check out some places (Portobello &c.) 10am at Paddington if you fancy a walk and a few stops for refreshment. Noel (from Purelight) is coming too.
 
I'm a newbie , and just snapshooter with out-of-my-league camera., not good with real people , but London is my home town , so it would be neat .
 
Apologies if this has already been suggested, but the Highwalks and the area around the Barbican centre could be quite interesting. There's also a street exhibition on at the London Museum which may still be on at the time of the meet.
 
I remember someone telling me that all big cities are the same and a possible difficulty is finding something unique to London. I suspect what makes a great photograph is not really the location but the inspiration of the button presser behind the lens. So although an underground is an underground anywhere, a railway station is a railway station anyway, a market is just a market, there must be photographic opportunities everywhere you travel and go in London. So for Saturday I'll suggest Covent Garden as somewhere central where quite a number of us could get 'lost' in the crowds, and add the 'Millenium Bridge and surrounds' as another possibility.
A number of us will have 'day travel cards' so there is the possibility of getting on a bus to travel a bit out of centre or to one of the Parks and add something to the day other than 'street photography'.

jesse
 
Hey.

Noel, I and his three Canon P's had a good walk on Saturday.

The plan for Saturday until dinner (lunch) will be:

- Meet at 10am at Paddington (perhaps nearby next to the canal).
- Walk along the canal through Little Venice through to the Trellick Tower and then 'do' Portobello Market. Walking all the way down to Notting Hill Gate tube.
- Have dinner at The Swan right by Notting Hill Gate (Fullers pub, good cheap pub food/beer) around 2-3pm.

And then.... well, that is still unresolved. What do you think?

We don't want the meet to be a guided tour with someone holding an umbrella at the front, but I think it would be good if we had waypoints and options, so we don't end up wasting time wondering where to go. I'm mindful that we're all spending a few quid getting here and back home.

From email conversations I realised that we are not all street-snappers, I apologise, I'd assumed that this was the case.
It might be an idea to meet in the morning then at dinner and again at supper but for there to be dual walks. Some of us going to snap the street and others going off, as John suggests, to areas more gentile.
 
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