Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/07

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Subject: [Leica] I really disagree with this policy
From: paul at paulhardycarter.com (Paul)
Date: Wed Sep 7 07:02:06 2005
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It was Robert Capa (a Contax user but nobody's perfect) who said: "If 
your pictures aren't good enough, you weren't close enough". And he 
certainly practised what he preached.

I'm strictly a 50mm man myself.

P.

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Paul Hardy Carter
www.paulhardycarter.com
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On 7 Sep 2005, at 15:31, feli wrote:

> I saw "War Photographer" a few while back. One thing I noticed is that 
> it appears
> that Nactwey doesn't seem to be shoot with anything longer than the 
> 2.8/28-70
> or 2.8/24-70. Pretty much every other shooter in the film seemed to 
> have at least one camera
> with a 80-200. Quite often it looked like Nachtwey had a 1.4/35 or 24; 
> sometimes even a plain
> 50 mounted. Given the circumstances this man shoots under and the 
> photos he produces,
> that is very close.


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