Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd suggest he used Leicas because when he started shooting, Leicas were pretty much "it" to do the kind of photography he wanted to do. And if anyone was more interested in the content of the image, rather than in technical crap, it was HCB. ;-) On 6/14/05 10:10 AM, "GREG LORENZO" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: > Arthur Peterson writes in part: >> >> Three quarters of a century >> ago, Cartier-Bresson was taking better photographs with his >> technologically deprived (i.e., by today's standards) Leicas than >> I'm taking today with the latest electronic bodies and aspherical >> lenses. And if using equipment as antiquated as his would enable >> me to take photographs as good as his, I'd trade my modern >> equipment for it in an instant. >> > > Which company was making the best glass in the world at that time? > > It seems HCB was concerned that his images were being exposed on a > film plane with Leica glass in front of it. > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information