Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where did he carry all these rolls? The pictures you see of HCB show him with no camera bag or with one that would hold one camera and two lenses, at the most. Chris >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 - -- 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