RE: [Leica] Leica in Vietnam

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

I thought there were in Korea, but knowing that you would absolutely
definitely know, didn't want to over-reach. :-)...It is amazing to think of
people hauling those tanks around a second longer than necessary. And, of
course, getting great stuff with them....Didn't Dixie Reese, whose work in
in Requiem, use some large format equipment for that gorgeous stuff he took
"between the wars" in Vietnam?



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At 10:17 AM 3/9/2000 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Brady, hell...how about the photographers in WWII who were still using
>"Speed" Graphics...

Combat photographers in Korea still used Speed Graphics, as they did early
in the Viet-Nam era.  These are the military fellows I am speaking of.  I
knew a number of the Korean-era guys who worked at the Baltimore
NEWS-AMERICAN in the middle '70's:  and they were STILL using cut-film
cameras.  One of 'em told me, only half in jest, that he couldn't see going
down in quality to one of those "little" cameras like a Rolleiflex.

Of course, the NEWS-AMERICAN went bankrupt a year or two later and their
restricted photo content may well have been a reason!  But it was
refreshing to meet professional photograhers as eccentric as these guys.

Marc

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