Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 17/12/99 4:27 am, Eric Welch at ewelch@neteze.com wrote: > sometime around 12/16/99 9:52 AM, Mark Rutledge at markrut@ticnet.com was > heard to write: > >> SInce it seems LUG'ers know everything(gratuitous flattery!), any ideas on >> what camera W.E. Smith used, C-word or Leica? Saw some images of Jazz >> musicians in the last issue of Doubletake on the stand, very cool, not the >> stuff I,m used to seeing from him. > > He used everything that was available. His last camera seems to have been > the Minolta SRT. That's what he shot his most successful essay, Minimata, > on. Gene Smith ditched his rangefinders in favour of SLRs sometime around the early 70s, I think. But he used a LOT of cameras...five at once, on some occasions. As far as I understand it, he had two 35s and two 90s, one each of colour and b/w. What the fifth lens was I've never been able to work out, but I suspect it was a backup b/w body with a 35. Am I alone in finding his work... not that interesting? Probably. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.cinematic.freeserve.co.uk music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk