You live in a very small world, Peter. May I humbly suggest that you try to expand your horizon.
Just as a very small example, I recently picked up a copy of National Geographic in which one of the stories was photographed mostly with what looked to be a Leica M6. All the published photos were in color. Log on to some of the Leica lists and you'll see a lot of color work by some very competent photographers, professional and amateur. Capa was using Leicas the day he was killed in 1954, and at least one of his last rolls was in color (in fact, his very final frame was in color). He was shooting both B&W and color that day. Larry Burrows shot a lot of his Vietnam work for Life magazine in color using his Leica M3. Dickey Chapelle used Leicas, and did several stories for National Geographic, in color, using those cameras. In fact, she did the first story exposing the US's true involvement in the Vietnam war which was published in National Geographic (1971 comes to mind - I don't have the issue here in front of me). My friend, Bill Lawlor, who sometimes frequents this list, has shot a lot of his recent work with an M3 Leica using transparancy film. He's won a few "best in show" awards for some of his travel photography. I could go on, but why bother ... I'm sure you get the picure ;-)) Shel > [Original Message] > From: Peter Lacus > But then I've seen many black&white picures made using Leica equipment > and I have yet to see a color one worth the badge "made using Leica". > Strange, isn't it? Maybe I'm just visiting wrong places (most recently > Magnum gallery in London showing Robert Capa's works). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
