Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FeiningerEyeGlasses
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:32:27 -0400
References: <200107251850.OAA22168@tigercat.pwj.com> <200107251850.OAA22168@tigercat.pwj.com> <3.0.6.32.20010725172311.00a531e0@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com>

The viewfinder is definately a TEWE.  It does look like a Summitar too but
that's a little harder to tell.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FeiningerEyeGlasses


At 04:19 PM 7/25/01 -0700, Daniel Bowdoin wrote:
>If that's the photograph we're talking
>about, it's a portrait of a very young Dennis Stock, now a Magnum
>photographer. Feininger did it in 1951 (I think) on a studio assigment
>for Life magazine about a competition for young photographers that Life
>had sponsored.
>


Operating from memory, I am fairly certain the camera is a IIIc, the lens
is a 2/5cm Summitar, and the viewfinder is a TEWE.

Marc

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