Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernard Degaute <bernard.degaute@club.innet.be> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:16 PM Subject: [Leica] Herbert List - General catalog > 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 > ####### I 've checked in the book "75 years of leica photography", p.96 and I think Arte journalists are right. The vertical picture is not homothetic with the 24x36 : 17.5x22.5. It seems that the 6x6 picture has been refitted (?; in french :"recadree"). By comparison, a picture made by Depardon, p. 141 is homothetic with the original format. Dominique Pellissier