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

[Dominique.Pellissier@droit-eco.univ-nancy2.fr (Dominique PELLISSIER)]

>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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I've noticed that Leica offered him a R4 and a wide range of lenses.Because
he won the Oskar Barnack prize. Hum.
Concerning the R6 he says : "It's a superb body, entirely mecanic, which
"tient la route" (= holds well ???)