Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/17

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Subject: Re: Hollywood & Photography
From: "Tony Zoccolillo" <tzoc@servtech.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 13:51:20 -0400

Marc,

Did you notice the excellent job Steven Spielberg did in "Schindler's List"
 with the use of the Exakta I with the round eyepiece magnifier.  This
degree of detail (round vs rectangular magnifier) isn't seen in Hollywood
too often.  

Tony Z.
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> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Cc: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Hollywood & Photography
> Date: Friday, May 16, 1997 2:51 PM
> 
> Well, the one conceit Hollywood uses which I find especially gagging is
the
> red darkroom light.  They have cleaved to this since the days of b&w
> movies, even though the development of panchromatic film in the 1930's
> changed the colour of our safelights from red to dark yellow-green.
> 
> Someone ought to tell the boys that the past sixty years have meant a LOT
> of changes!
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!