Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was a matter of film. You used a Rollei for B&W, and a Leica for Kodachrome. Printers didn't like to make plates from 35mm so you would dupe them to 4x5 to make a sale. I remember we engaged a commmercial photographer to shoot a railroad accident, and he ran out of film pack for his Speed Graphic. I "just happened" to have a Rollei in my car, and I finished the shoot. The next time he was hired, he had a Rollei, too, and lots of film. Rollei used to advertise that they won all the Pop Photo Contest awards, and had a photo of Sophia Loren surrounded by papparazzi, all using Rollei. 'Way in the back was someone with a RF, couldn't tell whether it was a Leica or N*k*n. Marshall Hunt - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 19:18 Subject: RE: [Leica] Korean police action photogs - And the Roll of the Rollei > I have sitting in my lap a book entitled The Best of FIAP 1964 - FIAP being > the International Federation of Photographic Art, as translated from the > French. Anyway, this collection of prize-winning photos from all over the > world - USA to China and back again - is VERY Rollei heavy. In the back of > the book there is a section listing cameras, exposures, and film type for > all the photos, and on a number of pages Rolleis account for literally 50% > of the cameras. There are a fair number of Leicas, various Zeiss cameras, > some 4x5s, but Rollei was clearly the camera of choice still. > > I would also note that there was a period between the phase-out of the speed > graphic and the take-over by the Nikon F, when Rolleis dominated photo > journalism. > > But Marc Small can certainly provide the details re: rolleis. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of pmjensen > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:54 PM > To: leica users > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html