Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:23 AM 5/9/97 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi Jim, >Mostly I'm lurking and enjoying the "battle of varying philosophies" ( or >is it sophistries?) > >I read somewhere, that Magnum's Salgado, while covering the oil-fires in >Kuweit during the Iraki war >experienced real-life "Leica-Glow", when his M 6 got so hot in the fiery >inferno, that the body was >deformed. >I seem to remember, that his Leica ended up in the Leica -Wall in Solms; >they like to show such casualties >in their museum; it's PR one cannot buy and helps to enhance the "Mythos >Leicanensis". >Of course they traded him for a new one? >I like Salgado's work, reminds me a bit of Gene Smith's approach (my hero). >BTW. did Dr. Mandler consciously design "Bokeh" into those Summicrons or >did the Japanese discover it's virtues subsequently? Since he designed them >in Leica's Midland-Plant, can us Canucks lay claim to it's >invention? Alpenglow is Swiss of course, but did the Alpa-Switars have glow? >Sorry, it's late and this is getting silly! >greetings -otto- in Toronto > > > >otto w. rath, 504-633, northcliffe blvd. toronto on. M6E 3M3 canada (416) >783 5128 > Sure... Canucks can claim Bokeh. There's probably a patent infringement by Alpa as my Switar has great Bokeh. Good thing Pignons S.A. went bankrupt. Jim