Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/20
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Hi all!
Some weeks ago I saw a TV documentary about the famous Brazilian "Magnum" photographer Sebastiao Salgado. He was shown while shooting for his "Workers" project some years ago. When out on the streets he sometimes had two M6s hanging around his neck [and used them of course] but most of the time he was using R6 cameras. While he was shooting inside of a Chinese bicycle factory I saw that one of the two little LEDs on the mirror box of his R6 lightened up from time to time.
Being merely an M user I have no idea what these LEDs are for but I'd like to know this of course. Even Leica's R6 brochure couldn't help me but I'm quite sure that one of you can. I was somewhat amazed by this because I couldn't figure out why you should have control signals on your camera that can only be seen by the one who is photographed but not by the photographer... [My only guess is: One of the LEDs is for the self-timer and Salgado was using it in order to have mirror pre-release. But what about the other one?]
Thanks in advance.
Edi.
PS: By the way, for those of you living in Europe or coming there soon: There'll be a big photography show in Hamburg's "Deichtorhallen", starting on May, 30 that'll last about two or three months. [I can provide the exact dates if someone wants to know.] It will feature three parts:
1. Salgado's "Workers" project
2. The history of German photojournalism from the beginnings until now
3. "Magnum" - fifty years
I suppose about 90 percent of the pictures that are shown were taken with a Leica... :)