Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 05/15/2000 9:18:54 AM Central Daylight Time, jbcollier@home.com writes: > I thought that this story was used to explain the poor quality of the negs > at the time, all fuzzy and blurred. It seems to me that I read an article in > the old American Photographer that this was a myth; the negs were fuzzy and > blurred because untold tons of munitions were being directed at the > photographer during the scheduled shoot. I guess the Germans were a little > annoyed that the art director forgot to tell the right time of the session. > Regardless of the "quality", they show us what it was like that day far > better than any technically superior picture could. > > John Collier > > > From: "Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net> > > > > A great deal of the "look" of Capa's D-Day pictures comes from the fact > that > > an overzealous darkroom technician left them too long in the film dryer > and > > melted the emulsions - leaving most of them unprintable. This would have > > happened regardless of what camera he was using. > > Is there a web site of some of Capa's D-Day pictures?