Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This week's Der Spiegel (#11, page 3) reports on one of their journalists visiting the US Air Force base in Tasár in Hungary where Iraq exiles are being trained by the US for participating etc etc.... Spiegel's reporter, contrary to reporters from the US and the UK, was constantly shadowed by a polite but stickt official ensuring that he did not get too close to the Iranians. All journalists had to sign a paper accepting what questions were allowed and not, and what could be photographed and not. At the end of the visit everybody was asked to show the pictures they had made. One could not, the man from Der Spiegel. Everybody else had been shooting digital and could show their pictures. The Spiegel man had used his 'old Leica' and had no pictures to show, at least not on the spot. In the end he had to sign a declaration to make the persons unidentifiable on all pictures published. It was not mentioned if the old Leica was a 'Luftwaffe', but I guess that would have been more helpful than if it had been marked 'Kriegsmarine'. Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html