Just for Fun - Match Camera with Iconic Photo

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How many iconic photos are there, really? I think quite a few. But I never thought about matching the photos with the gear used to make the photos. There may be some surprises...

Let us start a list:

1. Tank Man 1989 Tiananmen Square/ Nikon FE2/Jeff Widener
 
3. My. Everest Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary/Kodak Retina 118

No picture of Hillary was made on the Summit. Instead, his climbing partner was photographed by Hillary using the Retina and Kodachrome.
 
Rock Island Bend, Peter Dombrovskis, 1979. This was the image used in The Wilderness Society campaign to prevent the damming of the Franklin River in the early '80s - it was the last of Tasmania's wild rivers and remains free from source to Southern Ocean today.

Linhof Master Technika 4x5 - buggered if I know how he managed to lug it in there...

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.pic-an24365561
 
nickthetasmaniac said:
Rock Island Bend, Peter Dombrovskis, 1979. This was the image used in The Wilderness Society campaign to prevent the damming of the Franklin River in the early '80s - it was the last of Tasmania's wild rivers and remains free from source to Southern Ocean today.

Linhof Master Technika 4x5 - buggered if I know how he managed to lug it in there...

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.pic-an24365561
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That is a cracking photo, and Peter's camera is always referred to as a Master Technika—but I have seen it, and it has no coupled rangefinder—which makes me wonder how it could be a Master. But I'm no Linhof expert.
 
Sarcophilus Harrisii said:
That is a cracking photo, and Peter's camera is always referred to as a Master Technika—but I have seen it, and it has no coupled rangefinder—which makes me wonder how it could be a Master. But I'm no Linhof expert.
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Master refers to the movement options (it has a extra top flap over the Super Technika, permitting extra rise as it is not constrained by the frame). By that time, there was no entry level Technika without coupled RF, but all versions could be ordered without RF (or with RF removed) - which landscape photographers often did, on the higher end (longer extending/wider movement) bodies. Linhof may overreached themselves a bit on the later Technikas - the better the movements, the more people will buy the camera for them, and have no use for the fine RF mechanism.
 
sevo said:
Master refers to the movement options (it has a extra top flap over the Super Technika, permitting extra rise as it is not constrained by the frame). By that time, there was no entry level Technika without coupled RF, but all versions could be ordered without RF (or with RF removed) - which landscape photographers often did, on the higher end (longer extending/wider movement) bodies. Linhof may overreached themselves a bit on the later Technikas - the better the movements, the more people will buy the camera for them, and have no use for the fine RF mechanism.
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Thank you, that's much clearer now. I've only ever seen the one example (Dombrovskis's, apparently) without a RF, and the images I have also seen online have always featured a rangefinder. But Peter used his with what looked like a large reflex viewer fitted to its back and seems to have usually composed through the lens from what I have seen in photos and films of him working so he would have had little us for a rangefinder I reckon. I'm not sure if I will ever get a Linhof myself, but I'd certainly love the versatility of the rangefinder if it ever happens.
Cheers,
Brett
 
sevo said:
Master refers to the movement options (it has a extra top flap over the Super Technika, permitting extra rise as it is not constrained by the frame). By that time, there was no entry level Technika without coupled RF, but all versions could be ordered without RF (or with RF removed) - which landscape photographers often did, on the higher end (longer extending/wider movement) bodies. Linhof may overreached themselves a bit on the later Technikas - the better the movements, the more people will buy the camera for them, and have no use for the fine RF mechanism.
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Sarcophilus Harrisii said:
Thank you, that's much clearer now. I've only ever seen the one example (Dombrovskis's, apparently) without a RF, and the images I have also seen online have always featured a rangefinder. But Peter used his with what looked like a large reflex viewer fitted to its back and seems to have usually composed through the lens from what I have seen in photos and films of him working so he would have had little us for a rangefinder I reckon. I'm not sure if I will ever get a Linhof myself, but I'd certainly love the versatility of the rangefinder if it ever happens.
Cheers,
Brett
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Thanks both for the info! I'm pretty sure I've seen Peter's camera at an exhibition at QVMAG in Launceston, but I know basically nothing about large-format...

Out of interest, can anyone identify this Nikon? It was used extensively by Olegas Truchanas (pictured) - the other giant of Tasmanian wilderness photography, and one of Australia's greatest bushmen period.

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