Re: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?

["Ken Iisaka" <kiisaka@attglobal.net>]

Well, moon over half-dome was shot on a Hasselblad with Sonnar 250mm.  There
are also numerous portraits with 'blad, too.

Ken Iisaka

Lost in Mill Valley in Marin County, California
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From: Lee, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
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Subject: RE: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?


> Even more informative:
>
> Take the number of great AA images made with a roll film camera and...I
> can't actually think of one.
>
> Jonathan Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mueller, Rob [mailto:rob.mueller@eds.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:00 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?
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>
> take the number of great AA images, divide by his years of photography,
and
> wince at how few they really are.
>
> Rob Mueller
> Studies in Black and White
> www.studiesinblackandwhite.com
> rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@neteze.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] adams the myth - Yeth?
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> At 10:00 AM 11/20/99 -0500, Summicron1@aol.com wrote:
> >but i agree -- who cares what camera he used/promoted. Hell, the man had
to
> >make a living. He probably didn't care what brand of tool he used that
> much.
>
> He actually did care very much for his equipment. Not brands in large
> format as for the quality of it. Though he did speak highly of some older
> Zeiss large format lenses he wished were still in production once. He said
> he always used the finest lenses he could get his hands on.
>
> But you are right, he never went out with one sheet of film, and I suspect
> many of his mistakes were better than a lot of photographer's best
efforts.
> His 35mm portrait of Alfred Stieglitz was one frame. But he had 35 others
> in case the moment lasted long enough to make more I'm sure.
>
> He is quoted as saying "A dozen good negatives in a year is a good year."
> Let that sink in.
>
> Gene Smith has a reputation for being a meticulous printer of anal
> retentive proportions, but his answer to that was a story he told about
one
> time he had some 12 negatives to print for publication on deadline and he
> had something like 14 or 15 sheet of paper to do it. And he succeeded.
> That's a benefit of being a master of his craft.
>
> When I used to print basketball or football pictures on deadline (that is,
> about 15 minutes to print 2 or 3 pictures dodging, burning, bleaching -
the
> whole ball of wax - I always kept that story in mind. Gosh, I miss those
> nights in the darkroom. It was fun to meet the challenge! (Amazing
exercise
> of memory making old pains less painful I'm sure).
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
>
> http://www.neteze.com/ewelch
>
> The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny
relationship
> - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas,
> "More Joy of Photography"
>