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Re: [OM] Ansel Adams

Subject: Re: [OM] Ansel Adams
From: "Paul Farrar" <farrar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:52:14 -0500 (CDT)
Ecrit Lars Bergquist:
> Wrote  William Sommerwerck:
> 
> >To the best of my knowledge, Ansel Adams never used Leicas, or any other
> >35mm equipment.
> 
> He did fool around with a Contax rangefinder in the 'thirties, and I actually

He did a number of informal portraits - "snaps" - with the Contax, such as
the well-known Stieglitz at a gallery. He endorsed "miniature cameras"
for candid and environmental portraiture: see "Natural Light".

Paul Farrar


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