Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Wilfred Thesiger -- How North Vietnamese War Photogs developed in the field
From: Thomas Schofield <tdschofield@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 06:46:19 -0700 (PDT)

A few months ago I saw a TV show on North Vietnamese
Combat Photographers.  They had to process the
negatives in the field.  The darkroom was the nearest
forest at night.  The photographer carried 2 dishes
and pouches of powdered developer and fixer.  A few
teaspoons of powder in each dish, stir, and run the
negatives back and forth through the dishes.  Worst
part is they only had 50mm lenses, no telephotos, so
close-ups of combat scenes were particularly
dangerous.

Watching way too much History Channel!

Tom Schofield
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