Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/02
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Whilst I agree that in gazing at some of his pictures, the quality,
particularly of the early examples, are exemplary for the time, I have to
say that a question like, 'What film did/does HCB use?' is a pretty inane
one.
The guy's been shooting since 1930-something, are we thinking he only used
one film, or are we supposed to list every film he's ever used? I'm sure
that he'd have tried an awful lot of films over the years.
I did rifle through my books yesterday trying to find that picture of a
hand holding his famous negative of the Man jumping over the puddle, just
to see whether the film stock could be read, but I couldn't locate it. Can
anyone remind me?
Jem
- -----Original Message-----
From: Sal DiMarco,Jr. [SMTP:sdmp007@pressroom.com]
Sent: 02 March 2001 04:21
To: LUG >for posts
Subject: [Leica] Re: HCB's film
LUGGERS,
In the recent New York Times piece about Henri's temper tantrum over
David Douglas Duncan's book of "portraits of HCB," did anyone notice, it
said, Duncan borrowed a roll of black & white film from HCB's assistant.
Looking closely at the portion of the contact sheet, we see the letters
TMY.
TMY means Kodak T-Max 400!!!
Could the master myself be using T-Max 400 after it has been condemned
by the LUG ?????
Happy Snaps,
Sal DiMarco, Jr.
Philadelphia, PA