Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/21
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B.D. wrote:
"I can't help wondering how HCB, Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Inge Morath,
Eisenstadt, or George Rodgers (FYI- It's Rodger, not Rodgers) ever got
through a day without obsessing about the color, finish, and metallurgics of
their equipment."
Guy asked:
"How do you know they didn't?"
Well, gentlemen, maybe I can be of service....
One day while dropping off some film for TIME magazine, I ran into
Eisie. He spotted one of my black paint Leicavit MP equipped M4s and asked
to see it. He asked me why I wasted my money for on the black paint cameras.
I said, "Er, well, ah, they're less conspicuous than chrome."
He looked up at me and said, "Salvatore, it's not the camera that's
inconspicuous, it's the photographer." As far as I know, Eisie never
purchased a black paint camera but he did have a black chrome M4.
I still prefer black cameras, but it's nothing more than personal
preference and ones own sense of aesthetics.
Finally, can anyone tell if a photo was made with a chrome, black or
pink camera?
This whole discussion is just more LUG silliness......
Happy Snaps,
Sal DiMarco, Jr.
Philadelphia, PA