Ernts Haas used Leica for his then revolutionary colour photographs. DagT
Den 26. nov. 2006 kl. 22.48 skrev Shel Belinkoff: > 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 DagT -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
