Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] LIFE, The Babe & a gear question
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:44:12 -0400
 
  An interesting and unpublished color set of Babe Ruth's last Yankee 
Stadium appearance in 1948.

http://www.life.com/image/50453928/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished

below is the Life photographer Ralph Morse in 1943.  Gear question: 
what's he shooting?  My uninformed guess is a Contax and a mirror 
housing.  And what lens is that fast-looking chrome beauty?

http://www.life.com/image/53376685/in-gallery/47141/babe-ruth-rare-and-unpublished

-rei
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