Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Luggers, In the french "Chasseur d'Images" (may 97 nr 193, pages 142 to 153), there is a article about Raymond DEPARDON intitled "Voyages africains" with some nice b&w pictures. 2 extracts: (in french then in "english") "Pour ce periple, Raymond Depardon, qui voulait voyager discret (sic), n'avait emporte qu'un seul boitier : " J'avais avec moi un Leica M6J et son 50 mm, un truc de collection, mais un boitier que j'attendais depuis quarante ans, depuis le M3. Le viseur est presque le meme et la cellule, c'est devenu important. Apres avoir roule toute une journee sur une route en plein soleil, on se plante a l'ombre, a la tombee du jour, parce qu'on fait 125/2,8, alors qu'il faut 60/2..." "... Avec le Leica, je fais quatre, cinq photos, les paysans ne comprennent pas pourquoi j'en fait autant, je les vexe presque. La, il ne faut pas entrer dans le moment decisif. Ce sont eux qui maitrisent. ..." Trying of translation: "For that trip, Raymond Depardon, who want to travel discreet, only taked with him one camera body: "I had with me a Leica M6J and his 50 mm, a collector stuff, but a body that I was waiting for sinds 40 years, sinds the M3. The viewfinder is almost the same and the cell, it is become important. After you had drived all day long on a road in the sun, you make a mistake when you go to the shade, at the dusk, because you use 125/2,8 instead of 60/2..." "... With the Leica, I'm making 4 or 5 pictures, the farmers don't understand why I'm making so much (of the them). I almost upset them. At that moment, you don't have to go for the decisive moment. They are in charge..." Sorry about the mistakes. Lucien Belgium