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From: "John Hudson" <13874@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 07 December, 2002 06:59 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM vs. Leica
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, 07 December, 2002 12:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] OM vs. Leica
>
>
> > At 10:27 12/6/02, John Hudson wrote:
> >
> > >If Oskar Barnack's light box acquired its reputation by accident there
> are
> > >and have been a lot of confused people out there, Robert Capa and
> > >Cartier-Bresson among them!.
> > >
> > >jh
> >
> > Correction:
> > Robert Capa's German RF was a Zeiss Ikon Contax II made in the 1930's.
He
> > carried it and a Rollei TLR during the D-Day invasion at Normandy, and
> used
> > them both (somewhat ironic that both his cameras were German). The ZI
> > Contax II was one of the two RF's around his neck when he was killed by
a
> > land mine in the early 1950's. The other was a Nikon S?? made during
the
> > early 1950's. Very similar to the Zeiss Ikon Contax in appearance, lens
> > mount and operation except the Nikon has a horizontal cloth shutter (the
> ZI
> > Contax II, III, IIa and IIIa all have vertical metal shutters).
> >
> > -- John
>
>
> What did Capa use for his famous shot "Death in Action" taken in the
Spanish
> Civil War?
Sorry for the misquote ... should be "muerte de un miliciano" [death of a
loyalist soldier]
jh
>
> jh
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