Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Breaking the rules.
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:16:19 -0500 (EST)

> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
> 
> In "The Right Stuff" the press conference of the astronauts standing in
> front of the new Mercury Space capsule was portrayed with a bunch of
> photographers all with Speed Graphics covering it.
> I assume this was accurate and says a lot to me about how far we've come
> in how long.
>

and the life photog in alan shapard's house in 1961 is using a rollei TLR,
and spinning the crank between shots like a hasselblad.  with the budget
they had for the movie you'd think they could have afforded a few
rolls of 120 for the props! :-)

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