Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Eric Welch wrote: > > > Does anyone have an idea of the maker of the lenses? I remember > > reading that Cartier-Bresson used lenses made by a number of different > > makers. > > Most of the time it was Summicrons. All of them. Never heard, though, > about anything else, though maybe some screw lenses were Canon or Nikon? > Interesting. Like Eisenstadt, who is also associated closely with Leica, > who had a very eclectic Nikon collection in addition to his Leicas. I > played with a lot of his lenses when he donated them to the University > of Missouri Journalism School. > > -- > Eric Welch > Grants Pass, OR I recall the article that I read saying that he used lenses of "various nationalities". If I can remember where I read that, I will pass it along. Gary Toop