Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:06 PM 4/4/99 +0200, Deniz Saylan wrote: >And in former times Robert Capa already said: If the picture isnīt good, you wasnīt >close enough. Capa DID say this, but it is idiotic. Pace to my good friend, the noted Capa authority and professional photographer, Mike Fletcher, but, frankly, maybe someone should have clued Capa in to long-focus lenses! I am occasionally photographed (I am a minor player in my community, and a trial attorney, so I, from time to time, find myself at the center of some controversial development, with lots of press photographers present.) I'm gonna slug the next SOB with a 35mm lens who feels that this gives him the right to get in my face. I'm just plain sick of it. The last time I was photographed, thankfully, the photographer shifted to an 85mm lens at my request and stood fifteen feet away -- still too close, but what the hey. (They didn't run the shot, though one of our group DID read the article in his first issue of our local paper, and was amused to find me mentioned and quoted.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!