Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If we can get away for two minutes from which Japanese binoculars are or are not anywhere near as good as the glass produced by God Zeiss... There is a terrific new Capa book out from Apeture....it accompanies a just opened show in Spain of Capa's Spanish Civil War work, some long lost. Apparantly Cornell Capa had three numbered sets of platinum prints produced of the Civil Wart stuff and donated one set to a Spanish Museum....the book includes reproduction of some photo notebook pages, interesting essays, and and long discussion of the Dying Soldier photo....If one believ es the latest, there seems little doubt that it was NOT posed....The soldier has been identified, his unit has been identified, and he died in the right place at the right time...further, there is serious doubt about the reliability of the old Brit whose claims of being elsewhere with Capa first caused the stink.... By the way...it's mind boggling how many of the photos are relatively soft/not quite focused....wonder if he was using some of those shitty Japanese optics? :-) B. D.