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Subject: RE: [Leica] Ian MacEachern ?
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:16:10 -0700 (PDT)

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
> 
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