Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not much of a photo history buff but this jibes with what I remember. Back in 1951, and during the Korean War, I believe that the Speed Graphics, Rollies, and some Leicas were among the top cameras being used. I was in Germany at the time so I bought the Rollie, and a Linhof Super Technika 4X5 instead of a Speed Graphic. I wasn't thinking 35mm until later, when I bought the Leica IIIg. It wasn't long after that the Linhof was sold as MF and 35mm served just fine. Ted in Olalla - ----- Original Message ----- From: "pmjensen" <pmjensen@concentric.net> To: "leica users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: [Leica] Korean police action photogs > Seth saeth: > >Now that I think about it, most of the front line photography > >during the Korean police action was shot with Leica IIIf's and the early > >Nikkor 50/1,4s. > > Seth: > There's a neat photo by the late Werner Bischof of AT LEAST twenty Korean > action photogs (and at least one scribbler) in a rugby scrum (it's a > Where's Waldo? scene), titled: press photographers covering the war, > 1951. Bischof has probably turned his back on some official to face the > reporters instead. Definitely not front line, maybe not even > representative. All manner of cameras: Rollei front and center, LTM, > Nikon thread (or is that Contax?), Speed Graphics with flash bulbs, 16mm > movie cameras with the big wind-up keys, etc. I don't know from lenses so > I'm no help there. Neat photo and chockablock with info for camera > historians. Can be found in MAGNUM DEGREES, page 57 (great diverse > collection of photography at a relatively low price, btw). > > --Peter (whose limitations require no statute) > > > > -- > 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