[Leica] Re: first publication

[pswango at att.net (pswango@att.net)]

My first published photo was in the LSU Daily Reveille (college paper) 
around 1960.  I remember being given use of a Linhoff press camera and being 
told not to use my Leica because 35mm wasn't up to the standards of 
newspaper work!  There was a big track meet and I went to shoot it with the 
Linhoff.  I got almost nothing usable the first day and returned the second 
day with my IIIf and 50mm lens, and to heck with the editor!  I shot a roll 
of 36 and gave the editor a contact sheet -- first one he had ever seen up 
close.  He went crazy making crop marks and the result was that I had a 
spread of 14 shots printed.  I got paid $1.50 per printed picture, so the 
total take was $21.  I think I still have that spread somewhere.