Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you abhor TV [:-)], check out Requiem, the book on combat photographers who died in the war in Vietnam (including Capa, Burrows, etc.) - - Phong > A few months ago I saw a TV show on North Vietnamese > Combat Photographers. They had to process the > negatives in the field. The darkroom was the nearest > forest at night. The photographer carried 2 dishes > and pouches of powdered developer and fixer. A few > teaspoons of powder in each dish, stir, and run the > negatives back and forth through the dishes. Worst > part is they only had 50mm lenses, no telephotos, so > close-ups of combat scenes were particularly > dangerous. > > Watching way too much History Channel! > > Tom Schofield - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html