Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] An extraordinary collection of 40's Leica images
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Thu May 26 21:40:54 2005
References: <00c501c56153$4bdbe810$6401a8c0@hal> <4296A0E0.1000009@planet.nl>

On May 26, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> The paper's web site does not say anything about camera or film used, 
> except that it mentions "rolls of film". Given that there are no 
> square pictures, these are almost certainly 35mm film; it does not say 
> what camera he used, but again, given that he was employed at 
> Politiken from 1939 it is safe to assume that he used the best 
> equipment available at the time, and that was Leica.


Call me crazy, but looking at the fingerprint of the images, I would 
make a gentleman's wager
that they were made with a Elmar 3.5/50. I known they are low-res jpgs, 
but there is something
very familiar about their signature...

feli


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