RE: [Leica] r singh

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

From and old Camera & Darkroom (1993)

He used a Japanese Tomiyama 120 panoramic with 400 colour neg for some
panoramics. Kodachrome 25 & 64 in Nikons  with a variety of lenses, mostly
50, 35, 28. + "I don't believe in using filters, even a polarizer"....


Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Robert
> Appleby
> Sent: November 8, 2000 3:29 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] r singh
>
>
> >>>>>>
> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:51:08 -0800
> From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
> Subject: [Leica] r singh [was: Why a 35]
> Message-ID: <v04011700b62f3418ab08@[216.67.21.19]>
> References:
>
> >[snip]
> >Raghubir Singh used a variety of lenses in his early days (Nikon
> FM2, BTW)
> >but ended up using a 21 (by the look of it) almost exclusively
> in his last
> >work.
> >Rob.
>
>
> actually, it's a 28, and apparently in his early days he used a ... leica.
> he later abandonned the m and 'graduated,' as he put it, to nikons.
>
> there was a brief essay/interview on his work that pop photo
> published when
> his last book came out. he discusses these and other material/technical
> issues.
>
> i saved the magazine and can scrounge up the details, if you like.
>
> guy
> <<<<<
>
> You surprise me. A lot of the stuff in his Bombay book looks a _lot_ wider
> than that. He was famous for being very cagey about his gear. Or anything,
> for that matter. A strangely introverted snapper, old Rag. Most of us are
> pretty outgoing. You can see that in his work as well, there's never any
> intimacy. No engagement. The visual aspect is all.
> There's a funny interview with him in the preface to the Bombay book with
> that other old loony Naipaul, who goes on about a set of balloon strings
> being "kite strings" and an old Parsi lady walking past a shop window as
> wearing "some version of western dress" (just a typical Parsi frock).
> Another expert who liked to keep the human side of the
> subcontinent at bay.
> _But_, to get back to the lens, you may well be right.
> Too late to ask him!
> Rob.
> PS, as for raghubir, I like his snaps, with the above reservations, don't
> get me wrong.
> Robert Appleby
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