Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/28
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he died with a Contax in his hands...
/matt
R. Clayton McKee wrote:
>On 27 May 2005 at 18:02, Jeffery Smith wrote:
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>>In "Blood and Champagne", the author continually states that Roberta
>>Capa shot this or that with his Leicas, but the photographs all seem to
>>show him with his coveted Contaxes. Did he use both, or was the author
>>equating RF camera = Leica?
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>Whelan's bio says that Capa frequently used whatever he could lay
>hands on, especially in the early years when his personal camera was
>often in hock. Frequently he borrowed cameras from friends or his
>employer du jour. The pix in Whelan show him with both, in later
>years mostly Contax, and of course the Rollei.
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