[Leica] Leica Photographic Olympics

[Bill Erfurth <m6rf@yahoo.com>]

Hi Group,

A couple of months ago there was a joke going around
about the "Leica Photographic Olympics"  It has such
events as the 90mm lens toss, the R8 shot-put (where
you had try to throw your R8 across a river and if it
made it your lost)...it was a real cute piece.

Well, I received this this morning, about the REAL
Leica Photographic Olympics.  Maybe you already know
about this, but it is new to me.

- - - -
Leica Photography, the international specialist
magazine
for 35mm photography, is
 ebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark this
occasion, it is organizing a
 high-quality photo competition under the name of "4th
Photographic Olympics" together  with Leica Camera AG
and
other partners such as Kodak, Lufthansa and Agrippina 
Insurance. The competition is to be a pentathlon with
four
set themes in colour and a  theme of the
photographer's
choice in black-and-white. The set themes for the
colour  
photos are "People", "Landscapes", "Architecture" and
"Action". For the
 black-and-white photo, photographers can choose their
own
theme. 

 However, not only allrounders have a chance of
winning one
of the attractive prizes,
 there is an incentive for specialists as well.
Besides the
main prizes for the winners in the   pentathlon (the
Photographic Olympics proper), there will be extra
prizes
for the winners of each category. The winner of the
pentathlon, the "international multi-theme Leica 
champion",will receive a Leica SLR camera worth 15,000
DM,
while the second prize is  a Leica M6 camera worth
10,000
DM and the third prize a dissolve control unit with 
two
Leica Pradovit RT projectors. There are also film
packs of
10 Kodak T-Max T 400  CN films, vouchers for Lufthansa
flights and camera insurance to be won. In all, more 
than
a hundred prizes and premiums with a total value of
over
50,000 DM are awaiting participants in the Leica "4th
Photographic Olympics".

 The international jury is composed of well-known
professional photographers and
 renowned personalities from amateur photographic
associations. The photos and photo
 series they choose will be published in the special
issue
of the Leica Photography
 International magazine, due to appear this autumn to
mark
the magazine's 50th
 anniversary.

 Whether they are taking part in the pentathlon or in
one
category only, photographers
 may enter up to five pictures per theme. Both 35mm
transparencies (with or without
 frame) or paper prints will be accepted. Prints
should be
min. 9x13 cm and max. 24x30
 cm in size. Each picture must bear the name of its
photographer, and each entry must
 include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. SAEs from
other countries must either have
 German stamps affixed or 5 US dollars must be
enclosed.
All amateur and professional
 photographers are invited to take part. The
photographs
need not have been taken with
 Leica cameras. 

 The exact rules of the competition and the entry form
are
printed in issue 3/99 of the
 Leica Photography International magazine, which is
printed
in German, English and
 French. It can be ordered direct from Umschau
Zeitschriften Verlag, Herrn Albrecht
 König, Stuttgarter Straße 18-24, D-60329 Frankfurt,
Tel.
+49 (069) 2600-632, Fax
 +49 (069) 2600-609, e-mail
a.koenig@broenner-umschau.de.
Entries should be sent to: Datenservice A.V., Kennwort
,,IV. Olympiade der
 photografie", Postfach 22, D-61203 Reichelsheim.

 The closing date is July 15th, 1999.








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