Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It begins in 1993 in Bosnia. He's shooting an F3 with what is either a 55mm Micro Nikkor or possibly just a regular 50mm with a few filters on the front. The other chrome body is something like an FM/FE I can't tell what lens he's got on it. When he gets to Russia later he has a Leica M6 possibly with what I think is a 35 'cron. Phil Forrest On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:04:02 -0400 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > The opening lines were something like: > The camera shooting this right now has taken this bullet. > And they show you the bullet. > "Nothing like a Sony" he says > The video camera - not his still camera. Which I think is not a Leica > but a Nikon with silver CV lens on it. I think its a film body. > Don't know what really to make of it but it was the leading thing on > Hulu last night which is my main visual stimulation package as I > don't have a TV. You'd expect Angelina Jolie flying through the air > but we got this instead. I'm going to see it tonight. > > I normally don't find war photography all that amusing. It's > necessary and involves a very specific talent group.. . not a thing > to fool around with. > - this guy may turn out to be interesting - not a moron. > Which is what I would think about the average person who said "why > don't take my camera and go shoot a war and win a Pulitzer prize?" > >