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Well, yesterday we had a "mini" RFF meeting here in Croatia. Roman and Nicole finally visited us 🙂

There was some (moderate) wine drinking, (strong) coffee was brewed, and we planned a walk around the town and perhaps some shots of the local street festival here in Varazdin.
Unfortunately, it was not to be - the weather decided to spoil the event - the rain began just as we started to aim our cameras at some of the more colorful costumes...
Anyway, Roman took a few shots, so you'll have to wait for him to get those developed, since I'm still way too busy with work to do any photo-related stuff 🙁

Anyway, it was very nice to meet another RFF member. Roman also extended greetings from other RFF members. Thanks to all! I'm sorry I can't spend more time here, but I promise I'll be back soon - and with some photos to boot 🙂

Denis
 
Good to hear from you again! Do drop by often in the future! 🙂
 
So jealous, Denis. My regards to both you (you excellent shooter, you) and Roman. I sometimes feel I'm in an island. I hope I get to travel to Barcelona and/or Paris by the end of the year. I was going to go to Italy, but Summer travel prices from the U.S. and a hectic work project schedule prevented me to go to a friend's wedding.
 
Mais, bien sur! Si tu as les billets d'avion et le canard confit, je suis pret, toujours! 🙂 Si je trouve l'argent pour le billet, au fin d'anne, j'espere.
 
Mon brave,

Confit, pas de probleme; plus de 8 cuisses en frigo, et plus en train. Les billets, ceux-la sont votre probleme. Si tu veux nous visiter, nous serons enchantes, mais il nous convient mieux si tu peux parler en anglais -- comme tu peux voir de mon francais affreux. Habe ich auch nuer die kleinste bitchen Deutsch.

Amities/mit freundlich Greuessen,

Roger
 
Well, Roman is back, so I guess he'll report his side of the story 🙂
I hope to se a few shots, too 🙂

Denis
 
Well, like Denis said, finally we are back, this was not the greatest of holidays...

-) Nicole got a new filling for a tooth in Györ, Hungary (in Austria, you can get it for free - but only the cheap amalgamum (don't know whether this is the correct English term) kind, and she wanted a fancy porcelain one, which is much cheaper in Hungary - unfortunately, for the rest of the week that tooth hurt a lot, so she had to alternate between pain-killers and anti-biotics...

-) Then she cut herself when slicing squash for dinner - sliced away half of her fingernail, and fainted from seeing all the blood, she was unconscious for half a minute.

-) Of course with that big cut she could not go bathing in Lake Balaton - but it was too cool & raining half of the time, anyway, until today, when it got hot and sunny again - but of course we had to leave.

-) To top things of, when we were driving back from the supermarket yesterday, just an hour before we wanted to take off back to Vienna, we heard a tingling sound that got louder all the time - the exhaust pipe on Nicole's shitty old Renault Clio had finally rusted through, and was dragging along on the street. The technician from the Magyar Auto Klub (= Hungarian version of AAA, for the Americans here) was able to mount it with a bit of wire, and today we had it welded together provisionally by some backyard auto shop we discovered, but to really fix that thing would cost more than Nicole's old jalopy had cost when she bought it used... It sucks to be poor...

Now for the highlights: Denis, his wife Verica and his two lively sons gave us a very warm welcome on Saturday; I was able to try Denis' Leica collection (M2, 3 and 6), which increased my lusting for owning an M2 myself... We were given the grand tour of his darkroom and camera museum/home office. As Denis said, unfortunately our photo-shooting tour through Varazdin did not turn out, due to bad weather, so we returned to his house, where we kept on boring our spouses with more camera talk. Sampled some very nice Croatian wine (unfortunately I could only take a little sip, since I had to drive), and finally left laden with unexpected & undeserved gifts. (The rain had turned into a real thunderstorm by now, so we had to go almost all the way at 60 kph top-speed, which was the reason why we needed 3 1/2 hours back instead of 2...).

As Denis said, I did take a few pictures of him and his family, but frankly, I really don't feel like developping them today, look forward to the pics in this thread in a few days...

Roman

PS: On Sunday, Nicole & me are taking off to the second part of our vacation - we garnered one of these 1 Euro-Cent flights from SkyEurope (with all taxes figured in, it is more like 50 Euros, but that's still pretty cheap), to Copenhagen, Denmark - with our streak of bad luck, I'm already speculating about the chances of our plane crashing...
 
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To top things of, when we were driving back from the supermarket yesterday, just an hour before we wanted to take off back to Vienna, we heard a tingling sound that got louder all the time - the exhaust pipe on Nicole's shitty old Renault Clio had finally rusted through, and was dragging along on the street. The technician from the Magyar Auto Klub (= Hungarian version of AAA, for the Americans here) was able to mount it with a bit of wire, and today we had it welded together provisionally by some backyard auto shop we discovered, but to really fix that thing would cost more than Nicole's old jalopy had cost when she bought it used...
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Whoa, sounds like a scene out of an Emir Kusturica movie!
Roman said:
Sampled some very nice Croatian wine
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Was it "suho"? (Only word I know in Croatian)
Roman said:
with our streak of bad luck, I'm already speculating about the chances of our plane crashing...
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Hey, what's with the fatalism? Cheer up!
 
Denis gave me some freshly-ground coffee (for Turkish style coffee) from a roastery in his hometown Varazdin - just brewed the first cup, and it is delicious!

The camera is my Oleg-CLA'd Zorki 6, which I had taken along for showing off its smoothness... 😉 Oh, and it has a Jupiter-8 on it.
BTW, Denis showed me some prints he made with a J-8, a Summicron, and, I think, a Summitar - and I was not able to tell the difference (admittedly on 10x15cm prints, only) - the only ones that really stood out where those from a 35mm Summilux, which looked like 3D-pics in comparison...

Roman
 
Good to hear you're enjoying the coffee! 🙂

As for the comparison prints, it's a good cure for (expensive) Leica glass lust 😉
For the curious, the shots were in identical setting - a park in front of a camera store in Graz, Austria. Sunny weather, background was ideal for bokeh tests - sun coming through the branches and leaves, etc... I can confirm that Jupiter 8 wasn't any worse than a Summicron or an Elmar.
The 35mm Summilux was another story altogether 🙂 But, at the price of about $1.700 (1300 EUR!) USED, I don't think I'll even consider it, unless I win a lottery...
CV Ultron is quite acceptable, given the price difference 🙂

Once again, it was nice to have Roman and Nicole here. Perhaps the next time weather will be better...

Denis
 
Hoot, I don't have anything scanned - just the prints.... And my experience so far is that the prints lose a lot in scanning.
However, since you're not that far from Varazdin, you are hereby cordially invited to take a look in person 🙂

Just let me know in advance what are your eating and drinking preferences 😉

Denis
 
Hehe, thanks for the invitation, Denis! Likewise, I must insist that you drop by my humble abode upon your next visit to Vienna... though Roman and I might end up fighting over who gets to wine & dine you first.
 
OK, just did some quick'n'dirty scans of the negs I took in Varazdin.

From left to right:

Clowns performing for the kids, even in the rain
Denis shooting his M2 (and carrying exactly the same Safrotto bag that I also use)
One of Denis' sons (his name is Marin, IIRC)
Denis & his son /his wife has her back turned towards us)
Some costumed, bored, cell-phone using participants of the street festival

PS: All shots made with Leica CL, M-Rokkor 40/2, Efke KB100 developed in Calbe A49 1+1.
 
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