Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for that. I don't know why, but sometimes little anecdotes like these interest me. Wish he didn't step on a bomb though. Daniel Marc James Small wrote: > I have just received the following from T Mike Fletcher, who is a noted > Capa scholar, though he still will NOT remind me of the name of his > wife's bakery and, believe me, the next time I'm in St Louis, I'll hit a > Krispy Kreme on my way to watch the Cards lose their next game! > > +++++++++++++++++++ > #1 I'm still a good friend of Cornell Capa, > "not was also a good friend of Cornell Capa" #2 Carl Mydans shot the > wars with Contax and then changed to Leica, he didn't like the Nikon too > much. Side bar -- All LIFE shooters always had a Rolleiflex in their > kit, the Rollei was the camera to be used first, and if all hell was > going on then the 35mm, because 120 was easier to handle in the lab, while > 35mm was just starting. > > Now about Capa's cameras: "Falling Solider"-- 05 Sept 36 was done with > a Leica llla, with either a 50mm Summar F/2 or a Elmar 50mm F/3.5. > Capa stopped working with the Leica, Feb. 1937 sorry I don't have the > exact > date. And then he used the Contax ll, with the 50mm F/1.5 Sonnar. He > started > with the Rollei when he was doing more work with LIFE magazine. Before > he went to French Indo-China in 1954, he was doing an assignment on > Japan. But he had to use Japanese film and cameras. Nikon gave him 5 > bodies and 13 lenses. When he took the LIFE assigment to do a follow-up > story on the French in Indo-China, he took his Contax gear with him > because he didn't have to think about them, he had used them for a longt > ime. When he tripped the mine, the Contax was in his hand, he had > just made a photo of troops in a rice patty in B&W. The Nikon was > blown off his shoulder and landed about 30 feet away. That Nikon is in > Tokyo now owned by a heavy weight department chain owner. NIKON BODY > Sn#66119612. With a Nippon Kogaku, Nikkor-SC 50mm F/1.4 Sn#342156. > To this date no one knows what happened to the Contax. I have an idea > and I'm working on it, it might be in Paris. > > If you need more info. I can dig in my stuff deeper. > > +++++++++++++++++++ > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information