Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jamie Lee Curtis said (in an interview for Projections, I think) that the only piece of advice her Dad ever gave her about being in the movies was "Always find out what lens they've got on. Don't let them shoot you with anything less than a fifty." OK, so a fifty on a 35 mm movie camera is equivalent to a hundred on a still camera, but what the hell. I like the 50 best of all. It just happens that two of the photographers who have influenced me most (Raymond Moore and Hamish Fulton) used or use fifties exclusively, not that I knew it when I first saw their work. They used Nikkormat FTn's with the f2 Nikkor, as I did for many years, by coincidence. That is still my favourite combination to use (almost thirty years on), though I prefer the images the Summicron makes. Regards, Malcolm