Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you go through them there are a few with an M4 and an M4P, but most are an F or F2. - --- Stuart Phillips <Stuart.Phillips@umb.edu> wrote: > > > Where does it say " Leica and other rangefinders are > used."? Alongside > each (excellent) photo it says "Nikon F ()". > > Am I missing something? > > Stuart Phillips > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Chefurka [mailto:paul@chefurka.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:26 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ? > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:09:31 -0400, "Phong" > <phong@doan-ltd.com> wrote: > > >I stumbled upon this photographer on photo.net > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=130648 > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=218763 > > > >The photos are in the style we often talk about on > this list, i.e. > street or > >documentary photography. Leica and other > rangefinders are used. > >From the look of the photos, he must have been > around for a while. > >Anybody knows ? A lot of the photos were taken in > and around > >Midland, Ontario [another incidental Leica > connection, just to stay on > topic]. > > Ian and I were contemporaries in London Ontario in > the early and mid > '70s. > He did the documentary/art thing and I shot weddings > :-/ He's been a > Leica > fan from the beginning. I bought his Nikon SP with > a 35/1.8 W-Nikkor > that > I still remember fondly. He's a hell of a good > photographer, and from > our > recent exchanges, he's apparently mellowed with > age... > > My wife was a custom colour printer at a London lab > at the time (that's > how > we met) and she did a lot of Ian's printing. She > remembers him as a guy > with a great eye who didn't know shit from shinola > about colour printing > :-) He sure knows his way around a Focomat, though. > > I always envied his work, and if I had been a little > less youthfully > pigheaded back then I'd have emulated it even more > than I did. IMO he > has a > purity of vision coupled with a flawless technique > that I'd give a > significant body part to share. > > Paul > > -- > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html