Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant writes: |Hey guys, | |I have one! ;-) Bright shiny new looking with flash bulb reflector and | attached to a not bad looking Speed Graphic. Gosh Ted, I can't believe you would really put this up for sale. Your almost old enough to recall how the Speed Graphics were used. As I recall, they were used primarily for newspaper work. You got the picture or you got canned. The media was newsprint with relatively coarse screening. You wanted a high contrast print that would screen well. Artsy-fartsy grey tones were a waste of time. The flash was either on camera on the left or most often held up to the left. Flash was used for virtually every picture...be it day or night. Fill flash was manipulated by using a higher shutter speed (M synch was great). Ahhh, for the good old days when flash was flash...the photog's ties were primarily for cleaning the lens...and the pace was set by how fast you could flip insert the dark slide and flip the cassette while changing the flashbulb. Regards, Bill Larsen, who is not quite of the era, but who worked with a lot of the old L.A. Herald Examiner photogs and writers when they were on strike and freelancing for UPI.