Time Magazine Cover

[Dfin]

The December Issue of Time, has an M3 / 50mm summicron, on the front cover. Strange that they would use a 50 year old camera as a lead about the years best Photos and not the latest all singing all dancing digital vunder kamera!!!🙄 🙄

 

[BrianPhotog]

It's Time. It's classic. 🙂

 

[Dfin]

It`s a chrome M3 with black tape over the shiny bits, and a neat rapid rewind lever. To whom does it belong?

 

[MadMan2k]

Strange that they would use a 50 year old camera as a lead about the years best Photos and not the latest all singing all dancing digital vunder kamera!!!🙄 🙄

Maybe it's kind of like how they depict people on TV as being beautiful and perfectly fit, whereas their real life counterparts are... not so much? 😛
The M is one of the sexiest cameras ever, why would they put some plastic POS on the front instead?

 

[VictorM.]

It looks a lot like the one Hank Carter is holding here: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache...ri+Cartier+Bresson"&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=16

 

[wyk_penguin]

The M is one of the sexiest cameras ever, why would they put some plastic POS on the front instead?

Is that really a question or a bit a sarcasm?

 

[Dfin]

A nice shot of HCB. But surely Magnum would have his cameras?

 

[loon]

Is there a link to see the cover?

 

[IGMeanwell]

That M3 has a ton of tape covering its seams ... so could it be an old staff camera of Time's

My favorite's of the group:

The shot in the bar in New Orleans by Anthony Suau

I thought the sequence of photos of the soldier wounded by sniper fire by Joao Silva, was quite interesting to think what handling the camera in that situation could have been like

Then photo before that of the soldier being briefed huddled around a camp fire was a nice atmospheric shot .... that was by Yuri Kozyrev


Edit: Here is the M3 as requested

 

[vladhed]

The December Issue of Time, has an M3 / 50mm summicron, on the front cover. Strange that they would use a 50 year old camera as a lead about the years best Photos and not the latest all singing all dancing digital vunder kamera!!!🙄 🙄

Is this the same "Time" i'm thinking of? The weekly? Don't see it listed here:

http://www.time.com/time/searchresults?N=46

 

[IGMeanwell]

Its in the December 18th issue ... its not the cover of the magazine ... its the cover sheet of the Photos of the Year spread in the magazine

 

[MadMan2k]

Is that really a question or a bit a sarcasm?

A rhetorical question I guess. They're more attractive than all the little silver point and shoots everyone uses to take pictures now, even if most people don't actually know what they are other than 'a camera'.

 

[Topdog1]

It looks more like a camera than a, well, camera. So iconic. Beautiful idea. Even a child would recognize it as a camera. On the other hand, a typewriter for the best stories of the year? Who would even know what such a beast was?

/Ira

 

[sjw617]

new Time magazine issue : Person of the Year

new Time magazine issue : Person of the Year

Get to put that on my resume.....