Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 3/29/02 1:37 AM, Marshall Hunt at huntmc2@fuse.net wrote: > 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.In In 1959 I went to work for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram(Texas) shooting with Leica equipment. One photographer used Rollie 50% of the time and the sports guy was trying Nikon rf. The Hasselbald distributor was pushing their products with a special press sales rep. The super-wide was really pushed hard. The paper issued all photographers a 4x5 and stuff and the other 5 photographers all used them. Six months after I started two had added 35mm equipment. Happy snaps, Steven Alexander - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html