Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Ben Holmes wrote: > > September/October American Photo - just got it hours ago. HCB from cover to > cover, including interviews and photos of the man. I recently saw a movie on HCB on ARTE. One of the more interesting parts was when HCB was filmed while making pictures. I have never seen anybody transporting film and making the next picture so fast. 24 frames per second were not enough to show the action clearly. He must have been able to make easily 2 pictures per second with his TM Leica. The way he worked was that he set shutterspeed, aperture and distance, and then made a series of pictures concentrating on the subject, probably hoping that one of them would fix the decicive moment. He also had stealth quality: HCB and his Leica were always very close to the subject but somehow invisible, they didn't intrude. Probably still today a very valid way to photograph with a Leica. Great images. Gerard Captijn.