Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/01

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Henri Cartier Bresson's tools
From: Gary J Toop <gtoop@uoguelph.ca>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:23:46 -0500 (EST)



On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Eric Welch wrote:

> According to a book by Beaumont Newhall on HC-B, he used a Leica M 
> camera (probably an M2 I would suspect - or M3) with a 50mm lens for 90 
> per cent of his work. But he always carried in his pockets a 35 and a 90 
> for those times when the foreground needed to be adjusted. <g>
> -- 
> Eric Welch
> Grants Pass, OR

	Does anyone have an idea of the maker of the lenses?  I remember 
reading that Cartier-Bresson used lenses made by a number of different 
makers. 

Gary

Replies: Reply from Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net> (Re: Henri Cartier Bresson's tools)
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