Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo of Larry Burrows and M3 in Eastland's M book
From: Claes Bjerner <claes.bjerner@pi.se>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 98 08:47:28 -0000
 
>
>    While flipping through Jonathan Eastland's Leica M Compendium, it
>    seems that the picture on page 170 (taken by Tim Page, of Larry 
>    Burrows photographing a Vietnamese Catholic funeral) is reversed, 
>    showing his left index finger on the shutter release of an M3.  Could
>    someone else more knowledgeable confirm ?  
>
>    Thank you in advance,
>
>- Phong
>Leicalier Novice ;-)

You are very observant, Phong! I=B4m sure you also noticed that the =
priest in the background has his frock buttoned "reversed". The =
question is if Tim Page reversed his negative by mistake or if the =
publisher reversed the photo for layout reasons?

Claes