MISH
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what about Mary Ellen Mark
venchka
Veteran
Briefly anyway
Briefly anyway
Jennifer Connelly.
She did hold it correctly. She looked good holding it.
David Douglas Duncan also used Nikkor optics just like my Nikkor optics. Another $10 for film and processing ...
Briefly anyway
Jennifer Connelly.
She did hold it correctly. She looked good holding it.David Douglas Duncan also used Nikkor optics just like my Nikkor optics. Another $10 for film and processing ...
Then there's Seal and his M8...
Sofa King
Established
I saw a documentary on Eggleston and it looked like he was using a Contax G2. He could have multiple cameras though...
gustav[] pEña
gustav[] pEña
patrickjames said:
sorry, but for me knowing that some photographers i like uses leica made me realize that i need it one. as simple as that. Do you imagen a Henry cartier Bresson or Nan Gonding using big canons? no, me nither. Thas why I understan that to be able to do a similiar job i need a similar equipment.
aizan
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try imagining yourself shooting a canon 5d, like so many magnum photographers are these days.
burninfilm
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John Rountree said:
W. Eugene Smith, huh? Have you ever really read up about the man? I mean, c'mon, he used just about any camera that he thought would work for a certain job. In the 30's he used a Speed Graphic, then later worked with Zeiss equipment (Such as a Super Ikomat A and a Contax). He also used an Ikoflex and Rolleiflex (though he preferred the Ikoflex). To further expand on the list of cameras he used, I'll inlude the Olympus Pen F and the Minolta SRT series of SLRs. Did he ever use Leica? Yes... but not because of any inherent advantages of Leica cameras (other than the small size and portability, which the Contax shared as well).
In the end, I really have no problem with someone posting a question about those who used Leicas. But to try and say that photographers like Eugene Smith used Leicas isn't even half the story... because many of them used all kinds of cameras! I mean, you could name just about any successful photographer from the mid-20th century and say "they used a Leica... at least once!" Furthermore, to state that since these photographers used Leicas, and then conclude that this provenance shows the superiority of Leica cameras in many photographic situations is fairly ridiculous as well. I've used a Nikon F for street shooting without a problem. You'll find that in the streets, it really doesn't matter what camera you use. It's all in your head! Just look at my avatar, that photo was made around 1960 with a 4X5 Crown Graphic or Speed Graphic. Lastly, one needs to consider that before about 1960, the only fairly extensive camera systems which allowed for easy portability and fairly rapid use (in comparison) without frequent film changes were all rangefinders. So of course there will be a large number of photographers from this era who used them, as well as Contax and Nikon rangefinders.
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Marc-A.
I Shoot Film
jano said:*cough* me *cough*
(awe come on.. SOMEONE had to say it!
*cough* same here *cough*
rogue_designer
Reciprocity Failure
gustav[] pEña said:
They might have used small canon, or nikon or contax RF's tho. The use of a rangefinder is more critical than the use of a leica per se.
That said.
Nobody's mentioned Chris Weeks.
Marc-A.
I Shoot Film
ZdenekP
Member
Norman Seider.
I have got this answer to my question on another forum: "Norman uses Leica equipment for 35mm and Technikardon for 4x5."
I have got this answer to my question on another forum: "Norman uses Leica equipment for 35mm and Technikardon for 4x5."
hdrmd
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William Albert Allard, David Alan Harvey, and the incomparable Sam Abell(mostly R's). DR
burninfilm
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Hibbs said:
Well, there's a picture in the book "Larry Burrows Vietnam" published by Alfred A. Knopf with Larry Burrows sporting a chrome M3 with a wide angle lens and external VF, another chrome M3 with the 50mm DR-Summicron and external finder, and a chrome Nikon F Photomic FTn slung over the shoulder with what might be a 50mm f1.4 Nikkor. Anyway, just thought I'd throw this out there if you were still curious.
x-ray
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Walker Evans and Russell Lee of the FSA also Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Vics
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haroldjr33 said:
I'm pretty sure that Capa only ever used Contax RFs and Rollei TLR. Not true?
Vic
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merciful
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When he finally got too close, he was carrying a Nikon RF and a Contax. I don't know about the Leicas.
Vics said:
Xmas
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His last photo shows him some way to the rear of the platoon. He should have been up close and staying in some one elses foot prints.
Noel
Noel
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merciful
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Oooops, I didn't know that he failed to take his on advice on that fateful day.
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