Iceland 1999 - About this site
From Worldtraveller
About This Website
The Words
The text throughout these pages was written by Roger Wesson. It is almost exactly identical to the reports given to our benefactors after the expedition. There are just over 10,000 words in all.
The Pictures
All photographs on this site were taken by Roger Wesson, John Carter and George Payne, except for the two postcards shown in chapter 13. Feel free to download them for personal or educational use, but please don't reproduce them on the web or elsewhere without asking us first.
Photographers might be interested in what we used to take the pictures. Here is a brief list of what cameras and film we all used:
Roger Wesson: Olympus OM-1, with 28mm, 50mm, 70-210mm lenses and a 2x Teleconverter. Also a Pentax Espio 735G. Film used: Fuji Sensia II 100 - 12 rolls. Fuji Superia 400 - 4 rolls. Ilford Super XP2 400 and Kodak T-max 400 - one roll each. The Olympus was used for all slides, the Pentax for all prints. Filters used at various times - polariser, NDx4 and Grey Grad.
John Carter: A Pentax SLR with 35-70mm lens, and Minolta compact camera. The silly fool refused to use slide film, using Kodak Gold 100, 200 & 400 exclusively.
George Payne: Canon AE-1, with 50mm lens. George used about 15 rolls of Fuji Sensia II 100.
It wasn't all plain sailing: the day we left London, my camera's light meter stopped working, and on day 3, John's SLR stopped working altogether, except for the light meter. I had to either take meter readings using John's camera, or get George to tell me what his camera was saying. Remarkably, only about 15 of my 450 slides are badly exposed.
