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Re: [OM] Cartier-Bresson (was OT -Robert Capa: Storyville)

Subject: Re: [OM] Cartier-Bresson (was OT -Robert Capa: Storyville)
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:11:29 -0700
Shey must have had a special prototype OM-1 made at the secret Wyoming
factory no doubt, to be carrying it in 1957...
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...




on 4/30/03 2:13 AM, Piers Hemy at piers@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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