Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:17 AM 3/9/2000 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >Brady, hell...how about the photographers in WWII who were still using >"Speed" Graphics... Combat photographers in Korea still used Speed Graphics, as they did early in the Viet-Nam era. These are the military fellows I am speaking of. I knew a number of the Korean-era guys who worked at the Baltimore NEWS-AMERICAN in the middle '70's: and they were STILL using cut-film cameras. One of 'em told me, only half in jest, that he couldn't see going down in quality to one of those "little" cameras like a Rolleiflex. Of course, the NEWS-AMERICAN went bankrupt a year or two later and their restricted photo content may well have been a reason! But it was refreshing to meet professional photograhers as eccentric as these guys. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!