Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe mon ami, Merci! Merci beaucoup! Quite probably a close image the Prme Minister saw. In those days I would have had 3 M4's hnging off my neck with different lenses! :-) cheers, ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions-TED at Barca dot com Le 31 ao?t 12 ? 01:26, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> a ?crit : > SO EMANUEL WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS??? > > My photograph of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau of Canada sliding > down a stair case bannister hands held on high doesn't count, because > it's shot in B&W. And not Velvia?????? > > When it's recognized as the most iconic politcal photograph in the > history of Canada! Not by me, but the National Archives of Canada and > many other organizations of similar position. > > Is that correct good Sir? > > Just a passing thought. > I know this photograph very well now Ted - it crowns the piano here at Mutz :-) :-) :-) Yet, in fact my friend, it is not at all about film; the world was different then and colours had yet to be invented. To evidence this, here is what Trudeau actually saw. See, no colours either. http://tinyurl.com/6q9qrs7 ;-) Stay well my dear Uncle from over the pond Amiti?s d'Alice et de Philippe, in awe at the book Women in Medicine :-) > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca> > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:38 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions > > >> Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will capture >> images >> in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey? Grey? >> The >> colour of age and Death? >> >> This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something. >> That >> was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice bright >> colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice. >> >> I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting landscapes >> in >> b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory. >> >> The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could >> reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or imagine >> they >> knew better. >> >> Emanuel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information