Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/23

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Subject: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:05:59 -0500
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> >
> > below is the Life photographer Ralph Morse in 1943.  Gear question:
what's
> > he shooting?  My uninformed guess is a Contax and a mirror housing.  And
> > what lens is that fast-looking chrome beauty?
> >
> >
> >
http://www.life.com/image/53376685/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished


Gandy discusses the housing and perhaps the lens here:

Zeiss 180/2.8 Olympia Sonnar

http://www.cameraquest.com/oly180.htm

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Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA
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