Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A friend used to do printing for HCB at Picto in Paris. He said many times he would shoot 40 rolls a DAY. Cheers, Craig On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 07:52 AM, Leica Users digest wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:45:56 -0700 > From: Feli di Giorgio <feli2@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Using film... > Message-ID: <CAA37279-CD59-11D7-8179-00306599C552@earthlink.net> > References: > > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html