Re: [Leica] Not Fade Away

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

I've spent some time with Marshall talking cameras and photography and I
have several of his prints hanging in my home. He has an interesting
approach to Leicas (and it explains why he uses so many). Once he's happy
with a camera/lens combination he never removes that lens from that camera.
It becomes, in essence, a fixed lens camera. He's a big fan of the Leicavit
(I knew him before I was aware of the Abrahomsson Rapidwinder) and uses them
on his M2s. But his favorites are his badly beaten black enamel M4 bodies.
Al least one of which was modified (I don't know how or by whom) to work
with a Leicavit.

BTW, there's at least one medium format shot in his book.

Bryan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Not Fade Away


>At 06:39 PM 10/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>A couple of months ago, someone on the LUG recommended Jim Marshall's
>>book "Not Fade Away--The Rock & Roll Photography of Jim Marshall". I
>>ordered it from Amazon and received it yesterday. After having looked
>>through it, I heartily recommend it to all of you. The book is wonderful
>>on several levels:
>
>
>        Hail,HAIL...JIM MARSHALL!!
>
>This Bad Boy Rock & Roll photographer from the 60's and 70's is a great
>documentary photographer (and the bane of art directors everywhere).
>
>His book is march through rock & roll history and has all the images that
>have become icons of the era.
>
>...and Jim swears by his MANY Leicas.
>
>In an article in the old American Photographer the is a great picture of
him
>at one of those 60's multi day concerts, looking filthy and carrying 6
Leicas.
>
>He looks VERY happy!
>
>
>Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
>St. John's, Newfoundland.
><http://www.straylight.ca/locke/>
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>"I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography.
>It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole.
>Now, how much reality can there be in that?" -- David Hockney
>