Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28
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It was a matter of film. You used a Rollei for B&W, and a Leica for
Kodachrome. Printers didn't like to make plates from 35mm so you would dupe
them to 4x5 to make a sale.
I remember we engaged a commmercial photographer to shoot a railroad
accident, and he ran out of film pack for his Speed Graphic. I "just
happened" to have a Rollei in my car, and I finished the shoot. The next
time he was hired, he had a Rollei, too, and lots of film.
Rollei used to advertise that they won all the Pop Photo Contest awards,
and had a photo of Sophia Loren surrounded by papparazzi, all using Rollei.
'Way in the back was someone with a RF, couldn't tell whether it was a Leica
or N*k*n. Marshall Hunt
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 19:18
Subject: RE: [Leica] Korean police action photogs - And the Roll of the
Rollei
> I have sitting in my lap a book entitled The Best of FIAP 1964 - FIAP
being
> the International Federation of Photographic Art, as translated from the
> French. Anyway, this collection of prize-winning photos from all over the
> world - USA to China and back again - is VERY Rollei heavy. In the back of
> the book there is a section listing cameras, exposures, and film type for
> all the photos, and on a number of pages Rolleis account for literally 50%
> of the cameras. There are a fair number of Leicas, various Zeiss cameras,
> some 4x5s, but Rollei was clearly the camera of choice still.
>
> I would also note that there was a period between the phase-out of the
speed
> graphic and the take-over by the Nikon F, when Rolleis dominated photo
> journalism.
>
> But Marc Small can certainly provide the details re: rolleis.
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of pmjensen
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:54 PM
> To: leica users
> Subject: [Leica] Korean police action photogs
>
>
> Seth saeth:
> >Now that I think about it, most of the front line photography
> >during the Korean police action was shot with Leica IIIf's and the early
> >Nikkor 50/1,4s.
>
> Seth:
> There's a neat photo by the late Werner Bischof of AT LEAST twenty Korean
> action photogs (and at least one scribbler) in a rugby scrum (it's a
> Where's Waldo? scene), titled: press photographers covering the war,
> 1951. Bischof has probably turned his back on some official to face the
> reporters instead. Definitely not front line, maybe not even
> representative. All manner of cameras: Rollei front and center, LTM,
> Nikon thread (or is that Contax?), Speed Graphics with flash bulbs, 16mm
> movie cameras with the big wind-up keys, etc. I don't know from lenses so
> I'm no help there. Neat photo and chockablock with info for camera
> historians. Can be found in MAGNUM DEGREES, page 57 (great diverse
> collection of photography at a relatively low price, btw).
>
> --Peter (whose limitations require no statute)
>
>
>
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