Well I just read in today's paper that he never used a wide-angle, and his
original 1932 L**ca is still in his possession - kept in a strongbox. I
think we can make a safe assumption.
Same report goes on to mention that when he gave up photography 30 years
ago, he dismissed it as nothing but "un truc mecanique" - it's just
equipment (in my words). I think we can take that as the Master's
*definitive* stamp of approval of Zuikoholism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,946320,00.html
Piers
OM-content - the article was illustrated with a 1957 picture of HCB by Jane
Bown, who worked at The Observer in London for more than 30 years as a press
photographer. She is renowned for her portraits. Available light only.
Cameras set (I mean "set") at 1/60 and f/2.8. In the flesh, a small,
unobtrusive lady, who would carry her equipment around in a shopping bag
(perhaps with her knitting?).
The cameras? OM-1 of course, I'm surpirsed you had to ask!
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That's why I like zooms! ;-)
Anybody know what the Master thinks of them?
Moose
John Hudson wrote:
>Didn't HCB say somewhere that if you had to crop a negative or
>otherwise select a portion for printing that you had not been careful
>enough with your composition in the viewfinder?
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