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Subject: [Leica] Leica's heyday?
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:59:14 +0100
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According to my information, it was Sam Shere.


On 26.02.2014 13:18, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Herbert,
>
> IIRR, it was the photographer who shot the Hindenburg 
> disaster at Lakehurst.
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
> On 26.02.2014 09:04, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>> I read a legend many years ago. Perhaps one of you 
>> LUGers can fill in some details. In the days when 
>> they all used Speed Graphics, one photographer for a 
>> New York paper (I think it was the Daily News) did 
>> an assignment using a Leica. His editor told him 
>> that if he ever again used that toy camera on an 
>> assignment, he?d be fired.
>>
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>>
>> Question authority and the authorities will question 
>> you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Jim Shulman 
>> <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Was the Leica ever a pre-eminent press camera? 
>>> During the LTM and M3
>>> heyday of the 50s, Rolleis and larger format 
>>> cameras still prevailed. By
>>> the time most press photographers turned to 35mm, 
>>> the SLR era was in full
>>> swing (with Leica a distant player).
>>>
>>> Leica really outshined the larger format cameras in 
>>> the street, in the
>>> battlefield, as a sidekick in the car or for a 
>>> walk, etc. Just not in the
>>> wolfpack of a photo opportunity.
>>>
>>> Jim Shulman
>>> Wynnewood, PA
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 
>>> lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] 
>>> On Behalf Of
>>> Douglas Barry
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 8:24 PM
>>> To: lug at leica-users.org
>>> Subject: [Leica] Leica's heyday?
>>>
>>> I presume it is now in terms of users, but in terms 
>>> of being the cutting
>>> edge and dominant tool as interpreted by its press 
>>> corps usage, when was
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Did it ever exist? Was it just a cadre of 
>>> influential photographers that
>>> got them for free who popularised Leica? Anybody know?
>>>
>>> It certainly wasn't in 1959 when this Ekberg photo 
>>> was taken, as I pointed
>>> out in an earlier post, there are no Leicas to be 
>>> seen. However, I may be
>>> going blind and missed one. Have a look at the 
>>> photo of all the cameramen
>>> at the bottom of the plane's steps. But none of you 
>>> commented on the
>>> absence of Leicas at the time.
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140220-pictures-we-love-to-hate 
>>>
>>>
>>> Do we owe Leica worship to HCB, or to whom - a 
>>> clever early marketeer in
>>> Solms?
>>>
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>>
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