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Subject: [Leica] MM - first impressions-TED at Barca dot com
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:09:34 +0200
References: <CC650F2A.129E9%manolito@videotron.ca> <F69363CDACA241138884CDC7C5B3AC0A@syneticfeba505>

Le 31 ao?t 12 ? 01:26, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> a ?crit :

> SO EMANUEL WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS???
>
> My photograph of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot  Trudeau of Canada  
> sliding down a stair case bannister hands held on high doesn't  
> count, because it's shot in B&W. And not Velvia??????
>
> When it's recognized as the most iconic politcal photograph in the  
> history of Canada! Not by me, but the National Archives of Canada  
> and many other organizations of similar position.
>
> Is that correct good Sir?
>
> Just a passing thought.
>

I know this photograph very well now Ted - it crowns the piano here at  
Mutz :-) :-) :-)

Yet, in fact my friend, it is not at all about film;
the world was different then
and colours had yet to be invented.
To evidence this, here is what Trudeau actually saw.
See, no colours either.

http://tinyurl.com/6q9qrs7

;-)

Stay well my dear Uncle from over the pond

Amiti?s d'Alice et de Philippe, in awe at the book Women in Medicine :-)


> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions
>
>
>> Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will  
>> capture images
>> in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey?  
>> Grey? The
>> colour of age and Death?
>>
>> This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was  
>> something. That
>> was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice  
>> bright
>> colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice.
>>
>> I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting  
>> landscapes in
>> b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great  
>> glory.
>>
>> The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could
>> reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or  
>> imagine they
>> knew better.
>>
>> Emanuel
>>
>>
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