Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why a 35
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 08:25:21 -0500

on 8/11/00 4:09 am, Robert Appleby at robert.appleby@tin.it wrote:

> Donal, is that right? Frank always looked very 35-ish to me, for instance
> (I haven't seen the book for about ten years, but...) the picture of the
> man praying at the river's edge, the mining town through the lace curtains,
> etc.


 Frank used more lenses than you would expect. 35/50/90 in THE AMERICANS as
far as I can tell. In his earlier work there is a sequence of a couple on a
park bench shot with all three.
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Johnny Deadman

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