Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Considering that most TV reporters don't know the difference between an HH-53 Sea Stallion and a UH-1E Huey, My money is on Leica. Let's quit with the assuming "That makes an ASS out of YOU and ME" that Leica is at fault right out of the gate. Cheers Wilber GFE Bernard Degaute wrote: > Hi all > > In the last (french edition at least) of the Leica general catalog there is > a picture of a fish in its globe. The photographer was Herbert List > (1903-1975) and the picture was also published in "75 years of photography - > Leica". > A few days ago a documentary has been broadcast on Arte, a (considered as > very) serious French-German TV. It was said that this photograph was made > with a Rollei and that H. List discovered Leica (M body) several years later > only. > So who is wrong? How many Rollei, Hassie, Sinar, Linhof photographs in the > Leica catalogs??? :< > I think that the most important is the subject and the quality of the > picture, of course, but any comment about this? > > Bernard > > bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be