Re: [Leica] loco for chrome?

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

"Sal DiMarco,Jr." wrote:
> 
> B.D. wrote:
> "I can't help wondering how HCB, Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Inge Morath,
> Eisenstadt, or George Rodgers (FYI- It's Rodger, not Rodgers) ever got
> through a day without obsessing about the color, finish, and metallurgics of
> their equipment."
> 
> Guy asked:
> "How do you know they didn't?"
> 
> Well, gentlemen, maybe I can be of service....
>     One day while dropping off some film for TIME magazine, I ran into
> Eisie. He spotted one of my black paint Leicavit MP equipped M4s and asked
> to see it. He asked me why I wasted my money for on the black paint cameras.
> I said, "Er, well, ah, they're less conspicuous than chrome."
>     He looked up at me and said, "Salvatore, it's not the camera that's
> inconspicuous, it's the photographer." As far as I know, Eisie never
> purchased a black paint camera but he did have a black chrome M4.
>     I still prefer black cameras, but it's nothing more than personal
> preference and ones own sense of aesthetics.
>     Finally, can anyone tell if a photo was made with a chrome, black or
> pink camera?
>     This whole discussion is just more LUG silliness......
> Happy Snaps,
> Sal DiMarco, Jr.
> Philadelphia, PA

Bless you, Sal!