Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Joe Berenbaum > > At 14:17 15/04/98 -0400, you wrote: > >David Hamilton found fame and fortune only shooting with a 50, and a Minolta > >of all things. not sure what he's using on his current work. > >Stephen Gandy > Hey, whaddya mean "a Minolta of all things"? Some of my best pictures (and > also with the best bokeh) were taken on a Minolta with a 58/1.4 PF Rokkor. Remember the beautiful deep green coating on that Rokkor front element? I used one for a couple of years when I worked for KIEM-TV here in Eureka as jack of all trades - ran camera, control board, two-inch VCR machines, 16mm Bolex, B&W 16mm development, 35mm slide shooting (with the Minolta) and E6 processing and slide mounting for the color film chain. For about six months I ran the whole TV station from Saturday at 6am to Sunday night at midnight - a 40 hour work week in two days. Boy, those were the days. Never a dull moment. Since Eureka was about 15 years behind the times in 1972, I got to experience the "golden age" of television. Anyway, the Rokkor did a great job - I always liked the way it captured the bright chrome bumpers on the thousands of cars I shot for local slide commercials! Come to think of it, the 58mm was the only lens I used for about a year - Mike Johnston, I was way ahead of you! I used my two black M2's then for personal work, but the old Minolta got the job done, too. Gary Todoroff