Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A photographer friend of mine used to carry a whole bag of expensive cameras when he went to see the editors with his trannies. That impressed them. They never imagined the trannies were from one of the three Minox 35s he always carried around, one in each trouser pocket and one in the shirt pocket. Minox trannies were just plan unsaleable he said, .....with a smile. Chris >And Andre Kertesz used to continually produce large prints (16x20) >that those very magazine editors thought were large format prints. >House and Garden, and their ilk were full of photo editors would >couldn't tell the difference, but they knew how to quote the >numbers. Kind of like the guy who never drives his Porsche faster >than 65mph. (That's a little more than 100 kph). > >Is life so different now? > >:-) > >On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 06:15 PM, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > >>Magazine photographers mostly used Rolleis with their 6x6 cm film size. >>European photographers used Leicas and Contaxes but US editors >>wanted wire sharp, >>flashlit, high contrast photos that would reproduce well on >>newsprint with a 65 >>line screen, not that impressionistic stuff that HCB shot. > >Eric Welch >Carlsbad, CA >http://www.jphotog.com > >"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still >putting on its shoes." >-- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html