Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Still wonder, how HCB or Eisenstadt succeeded to take some of their very >special pix - with screw mount Leicas and 2 different windows for RF and viewer. > Yes, the famous picture of the boy carrying two bottles of wine on Rue Mouffetard in 1952 is a striking example of this. The boy is tack sharp and almost everything else is out of focus, adding further impact to the boy. I know of nothing so difficult as to focus on an object moving towards me, everything is really going very fast. I usually prefocus, but after developing the film I notice that I pressed the shutter too late... After studying a few hundred Robert Doisneu pictures from Paris, I went to my book shelf for HCB, and it once again struck me that HCB succeeds in adding something extra to almost every picture. /Hans