Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]csocolow wrote: ><snip> > > I've mentioned this story before but when I used to do daily news > photography I worked with guys who had grown up using Speed Graphics. > For them, they had one good chance at making the photo; a second sheet > of film was often a luxury. Of course lens changes were next to > impossible. This brought to them a discipline which they instilled in > me. Namely, that you could do just about anything with a 50mm lens on a > 35mm camera. ><snip> > Carl Socolow The 127 Ektar the standard on a Speed relates to somewhere between 35 and a 28 closer to the 28 on a 35mm camera I think. So Speed graphic photographers would be used to getting everything on a wide which many people would find more reasonable that trying to do it on a 50. I prefer a 50. But Speed Graphic photographers preferred being in the front row. And they could use thier cameras as a large blunt object to keep others out of the way. So I read. Mark Rabiner