Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Using film...
From: Feli di Giorgio <feli2@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:45:56 -0700

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 23:26 US/Pacific, Eric Welch wrote:

> Not true about HCB. He could be very economical with film. My old, 
> tired story comes from former editor of Epoca magazine (Italy's LIFE 
> magazine) who hired Cartier-Bresson to do a photo essay on Portugal. 
> He took his Leica and two rolls of Ektachrome with him. And when Guido 
> Mattoni (the editor) looked through his film, he said he could have 
> used 70 or the 72 frames in the magazine. It's a rare photographer who 
> can get that kind of success rate.


Supposedly he only shot about 200 rolls during the 3 years he was in 
India.

feli


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