Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If using Minoltas causes someone to retch, then I love retching. Does that make me a wretch? ;-) -dan c. At 10:38 PM 26-12-04 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >Odd, isn't it, that he was reduced to using a Minolta, (retch at the >thought) and yet produced images that any of us would kill to be able to >produce with our best Leica gear? ;-) > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >Slobodan Dimitrov >Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:52 PM >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: [Leica] Stories > > >Feli; >It's 35mm. But what's really depressing, is how destitute he was near >the end. All the good gear was sold off some time prior to the Minamata >shoot. I believe, he was reduced to using a Minolta (retch at the >thought) during this period. >It reminds of a few beat era poets, that didn't 'make it' who lived in >Venice, CA. I knew some, with more than a dozen published books, who >were cleaning Porta Potties to make ends meet. >S. Dimitrov > > >On Dec 26, 2004, at 6:38 PM, Feli di Giorgio wrote: > >> >> On Dec 26, 2004, at 3:54 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: >> >>> It is all that and more, Neal - Knowing Smith, and the era, it may >>> well >>> have been posed, but so was the original Pieta, so what the heck.. >;-) >> >> According to the book, at some point during his stay he decided that >> he wanted to take a shot of the mother bathing the child. Seems >> perfectly reasonable since he was all over their house, and the entire > >> village, day and night. So, he examined the location before the shoot >> and took some meter readings. At this point he set up two small >> flashes for fill light. Perhaps a day later, Smith joined them during >> bath time. Supposedly he only took a few shots, because he felt he was > >> intruding on something very private, but knew it when he had taken >> that one. I'm curious what format it was shot on. 35? 6x6? 6x7? >> >> Has anyone ever seen this picture as a real print? >> >> Feli >> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 >> www.elanphotos.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >Slobodan Dimitrov >Photography > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >