Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Forget the film - that is a super story. I find it surprising, in these days of one second gratification, that Dali, his wife and cats were prepared to spend ad day on the shoot to take one shot! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Dali Atomicus is the famous 1948 picture of Dali and cats and water by > Philippe Halsman > http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/04/how-famous-dali-atomicus-photo-was-taken.html > > According to this interview with National Geographic Society photographer > Chris Rainier, Halsman used Tri-X film: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4583051 > > But according to Kodak, Tri-X wasn't invented until 1954! > http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1930-1959.htm > > and of course Tri-X TX400 is not available in sheet form (currently). > > So what did Halsman use? > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information