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Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Leica] HCB Interview - f8 and be there
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:29:26 -0400

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for the pointer.  I should look the book up and read
it, as well the recent HCB book.

Cheers,

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of khmiska
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:05 PM
> To: Phong
> Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] HCB Interview - f8 and be there
> 
> 
> Phong,
> The book "Magnum - Fifty Years at the Front Line of History" by
> Russell Miller contains some very interesting comments aboutr HCB's
> photographic habits. On page 103 the author writes, "He (HCB)
> preferred to use rubber jam jar covers instead of lens caps, for
> example, and tied them with to his Leica with a length of shoelace.
> She (his wife) also discovered that that he used red nail varnish to
> mark his favorite shutter speed and distance - 1/125 of a second and 4
> meters."
> Cordially
> Kurt Miska
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> Kurt H. Miska
> GERMAN BUSINESS TRANSLATIONS
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> khmiska@umich.edu
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~khmiska/
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