[Leica] David Allen Harvey (direct from the horses mouth...)

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Okay guys (and gals),

I was getting obsessed with the DE Harvey equipment thing (yes, I know his
pictures are GREAT, but we 'are' LUG geeks - as my partner refers to us...).
So, I decided the easiest way to get the info was just to ask him. And
voila, a reply:


"......i use only leica m-6's....and only three lenses  35,28 and rarely the
50(my long lens).....90% of the pictures in the cuba book were shot with the
35
lens and i can think of only one published photograph with the 50.....all
photographs on cuba were shot on velvia ..not pushed....my 35 is the 1.4
aspherical so i can make anything work...i do not own a light meter (other
than
in the camera) or a tripod.....a small $35. vivitar amateur flash is my only
supplementary light which  i leave on automatic ( i know exactly what it
will
do)...i believe the less equipment i use, the more freedom i have to
concentrate
on the subjects/the photographs....i do have backup m-6 bodies in case of
theft
or mechanical failure, but am usually cruising the streets with just one
body
with the 35,  and an extra lens (28) in my backpack ....thankyou for your
interest and i hope i have answered your questions.....cheers etc....dave
harvey

..p.s. no i don't have any other equipment stashed in my room...in my
earlier professional days i worked with nikons, but even then i was a
relative
minimalist....24, 35, 105, and  sometimes  the 180......i only went to
nikons
when i started shooting color for geographic (because of the built in
meters)
..... i had always used leicas for black & white but didn't feel it was a
good
color camera for me  until the m-6 was developed ( i never liked hand held
meters for street photography) ..... i have been using the all leica
approach
since  1986 ......... creating a personal style was always the most
important
thing for me even as a teenager........again, all best dave harvey"


(Tina, you may to have to dump those six R8 bodies and become a
minimalist...!)