Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Spin the ring
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:56:40 -0000
 
> John Collier wrote:
> >
> > I hate passing on anecdotes when I cannot remember the name of the
> > photographer concerned (I guess not enough to stop me) but
> perhaps someone
> > will have heard the same story and can supply her name. It
> was during the
> > depression and a noted FSA photographer was asked how she
> got such perfectly
> > exposed negs every time! Her never fail technique was to
> start at one end of
> > the shutter speed dial and work through every aperture at
> every speed
> > setting.

I believe it was Margaret Bourke White...and may her spirit forgive me if
I'm wrong...;-)