Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/23

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Subject: Re: Capa's cameras
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:58:55 -0500

At 10:12 PM 9/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>OK.  In an excerpt from "Slightly Out of Focus" quoted in "The Art of
>Photography"  1839-1989, Capa himself says, "But the excited darkroom
>assistant while drying the negatives, had turned on too much heat...."

"Slightly out of focus" in typical Capa style, full of exaggerations and
downright fabrications. Whether this particular piece of information was
true or not is not really important. But using that book for evidence isn't
convincing. ;-)

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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

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