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Subject: RAYMOND DEPARDON'S M6J
From: "Lucien_vD@compuserve.com" <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:50:38 -0400

Dear Luggers,

In the french "Chasseur d'Images" (may 97 nr 193, pages 142 to 153), there
is a article about Raymond DEPARDON intitled "Voyages africains" with some
nice b&w pictures.

2 extracts: (in french then in "english")

"Pour ce periple, Raymond Depardon, qui voulait voyager discret (sic),
n'avait emporte qu'un seul boitier : " J'avais avec moi un Leica M6J et son
50 mm, un truc de collection, mais un boitier que j'attendais depuis
quarante ans, depuis le M3. Le viseur est presque le meme et la cellule,
c'est devenu important. Apres avoir roule toute une journee sur une route
en plein soleil, on se plante a l'ombre, a la tombee du jour, parce qu'on
fait 125/2,8, alors qu'il faut 60/2..."

"... Avec le Leica, je fais quatre, cinq photos, les paysans ne comprennent
pas pourquoi j'en fait autant, je les vexe presque. La, il ne faut pas
entrer dans le moment decisif. Ce sont eux qui maitrisent. ..."

Trying of translation:

"For that trip, Raymond Depardon, who want to travel discreet, only taked
with him one camera body: "I had with me a Leica M6J and his 50 mm, a
collector stuff, but a body that I was waiting for sinds 40 years, sinds
the M3.  The viewfinder is almost the same and the cell, it is become
important. After you had drived all day long on a road in the sun, you make
a mistake when you go to the shade, at the dusk, because you use 125/2,8
instead of 60/2..."

"... With the Leica, I'm making 4 or 5 pictures, the farmers don't
understand why I'm making so much (of the them). I almost upset them. At
that moment, you don't have to go for the decisive moment. They are in
charge..."



Sorry about the mistakes.


Lucien
Belgium