Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Test
From: "John Hudson" <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:29:25 -0800

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Test


>At 06:43 PM 3/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Quick now........which camera and lens did Robert Capa use for his famed
>>shot "Death in Action" o
>
>Had to be a Nikon F5. How could anyone get that with a manual focus, and
>manual exposure camera? Man, he would have to know something about
>photography then...! :-)


An F5 in 1936 ...? Was Nikon invented back then? Mr C used a Leica but which
model and lens. Someone please save me wading through my collection of LF
from 1969 onwards!

jh