Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the last name on my edited list is hcb. there have been innumerable instances on this list where that or our hero has stood for cartier-bresson. the agfachrome process on a scale of importance in the history of photography( 10 being tops) would be at most a 2, or 1 more than dufacolor. kodachrome and these are the two musicians who invented it would be a 9. there are about twenty more on the list in my folder, if there is enough clamor i'll send it out but the authors say it is incomplete. some one probablhy has the complete list. maybe marilyn? note rommel and dde honored same year:leitz took no time to get on the winning side. > From: Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:08:58 -0400 > To: "'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'"<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] presentation Leicas > > Among the many people who were given landmark serial numbered Leicas, I do > believe that Cartier-Bresson has been a recipient, but I could be wrong. > Also, weren't the 1935 recipients the developers of the Agfachrome process, > or did they receive other cameras? I've seen this list in the back of some > book. Perhaps the whole list of photographers, explorers and politicians > exists in somebody's data base. Stephen Gandy? > > Buzz > > -----Original Message----- > From: ralph fuerbringer [mailto:rof@mac.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:43 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] presentation leicas > > > in a home bound looseleaf booklet( checklist of leica cameras and > accessories) i picked up somewhere the last page lists some receipients of > "leitz charming practice to present landmarks of production to eminent men." > herewith a few on the list, w/some year &camera nos: count zeppeln# 280; > godovsky(#150,000)&mannes(#175,000)kodachrome inventers1935;#375,000 fm > rommel 1941;#555.555 dalajlama (1941 gold plated); #575.00 dr schweitzer > 1941;#980,000 dd eisenhower 1941;#1.000,000 eisenstaad 1960t;# 1,111,111 > a.rothstein 1960;unkown no. hcb. ralph