Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Shanghai Market Part 2
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:07:43 +0530
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I remember reading somewhere that he used a 4x5 with a 210mm lens in
the studio, and a Rollei TLR on the road in his heyday.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Douglas Nygren <douglasnygren at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> I would agree that if you want to do portraits, wide-angle lenses aren't 
> the glass of choice.
>
> I don't shoot portraits. I like photos of people in context, in their 
> environment.
>
> Arnold Newman is the master of combining portrait with the subject in 
> context--at least in my opinion.
> Others may disagree.
>
> What type of lenses did he use?
>
> Doug
>
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