Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin: I watched the first installment and was very disappointed. >The name 'contact sheet with....' is a great misnomer. You never saw >the photographer, and he did not comment on any contact sheet. At >times you could hear his voice from some old interview mumbling in >the background, but overlaid by the voice of a french woman talking >in that arty kind of a voice some women use when they recite poems. I >am all for subtitles, like we both know them from Swedish cinemas and >TV. The title 'contact sheet' obviously was used as title because a >great numer of (sometimes small) photos were shown at terrific speed. >Anyway, I'll get you the address on where to buy the DVDs when I >watch the next program, if I watch it. Otherwise try arte's website, >I have not got the URL but it should be arte.com or arte-tv.com or >something similar. > >I will also get you the ordering adress for those tapes where >photographes do comment on their contact sheet if you want me to. But >these are French tapes, and as such unlikely to be bilingual. It be a >week or so before I can get it. > >How is your car? Do you use your Heliar on a M6? What make is the >ring between the M6 and the Heliar? If it is Leitz, do you get the >infinity mark at 12 o'clock? Mine is at one o'clock. >- -- >Christer Almqvist >D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or >F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France > >------------------------------ > Like Christer Almqvist, I've been very disappointed by the first issue of "Contact sheet" because instead of contact sheet you only see a fast review of known photos rather like a caption stand and the comment is dull. I tell you more this Sunday after the second issue. But for the moment I wouldn't spoil 1$ for a DVD. The previous serie "Les cent photos du siècle" (something like "The Century in 100 pictures", in German too) was much better. The URL of Arte is http://www.arte-tv.com/ (in French and German). Bernard bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be