Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] W. Eugene Smith
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:27:30 -0800

sometime around 12/16/99 9:52 AM, Mark Rutledge at markrut@ticnet.com was
heard  to write:

> SInce it seems LUG'ers know everything(gratuitous flattery!), any ideas on
> what camera W.E. Smith used, C-word or Leica? Saw some images of Jazz
> musicians in the last issue of Doubletake on the stand, very cool, not the
> stuff I,m used to seeing from him.

He used everything that was available. His last camera seems to have been
the Minolta SRT. That's what he shot his most successful essay, Minimata,
on.

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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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