[Leica] A paper about Salgado in French Photo (magazine)

["Jean-Claude Berger" <jcberger@jcberger.com>]

Hello friends,

The French magazine Photo presents an interesting paper about Sebastio Salgado.
Beside some important subjects, he gives informations about his gear. At the
beginning, he used a Pentax then a Nikon F or two. In 73, he had the money to
buy a Leica, a M5 with 4 lenses (35, 50, 90, 135). "[The M5] is the best camera
I ever had" does he say. Then, in 79 he joins Magnum. The agency had a contract
with Olympus "The viewfinders were bright and the optics fabulous but they used
to loose their screws". In 84, Leica gives him a R4 "he did not had a very
reliable electronics". Then he got an R6. "Today, the R6s and the M6s are the
bodies I always use". He carries 3 R6s with a 60/2.8 mm, a 35/2 and a 70-180/2.8
and 3 M6s with 28 mm, 35/2 and 50/1.4 and a Minilux. In his custom made leather
bags (in a picture, he seems to have one hanging from each shoulder), he places
too a Leica table pod, the 30 B/W (exclusively) films he needs for the day (24
Tri-X and 6 T-Max) plus a Sekonic lightmeter. No flash, no filters.

BTW, the same issue of Photo presents the work of Brassai and Jane Atwood (and
of course, I will not say a word about some splendid semi-nude pictures of
Sophie Marceau who will play a photographer in her next movie).

All the best,

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Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com)
Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE)
Lyon, France
http://www.jcberger.com