Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 27 May 2005 at 18:02, Jeffery Smith wrote: > In "Blood and Champagne", the author continually states that Roberta > Capa shot this or that with his Leicas, but the photographs all seem to > show him with his coveted Contaxes. Did he use both, or was the author > equating RF camera = Leica? Whelan's bio says that Capa frequently used whatever he could lay hands on, especially in the early years when his personal camera was often in hock. Frequently he borrowed cameras from friends or his employer du jour. The pix in Whelan show him with both, in later years mostly Contax, and of course the Rollei. -- R. Clayton McKee www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 dig pager 281/510-3588