Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]cool - I'd love to see a copy of this book, having lived on the edge of Exmoor for a number of years Tim A - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <bob@web-options.com> To: "Griffith, Lucian" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] Books > Hi, > > [...] > > > BTW, I don't understand why you would collect books based on the tool that > > produeced them, rather than the substance that has been produced. It's like > > only eating cake made with a Bamix. It doesn't make sense (IMHO). > > [...] > > The pictures in James Ravilious' book "An English Eye" (1998, ISBN > 1-85522-628-6) were taken almost exclusively with a Leica M3 and older > lenses. The book includes a longish section (5 pages) on his tools and > techniques, and demonstrate how using the M3 + VIOOH or Imarect, with > uncoated Elmars and Hektors, in conjunction with the Zone System, help > him to get precisely the effects he wants. His prints are very even and > smooth in tone, very well suited to his subject, the Devon countryside > and how people live there. It's a very, very beautiful book, little > known. > > --- > > Bob > > mailto:bob@web-options.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html