Tito was a Nikon rf user

[xayraa33]

Tito still has fans? wow.

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Wait - wasn't Tito Puentes a percussionist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Puente

Yes - Tito Puente - timbale & other. No horns for him. Saw him once. Amazing amount of energy. And fabulous percussion.

 

[VinceC]

>>Tito still has fans? wow.<<

About 100,000 people died in the Bosnia war, thousands more in the Kosovo, Croatia and Slovenia wars (just a few dozen in Slovenia, to be fair), with millions made homeless by ethnic intolerance and economic collapse. Once last Sunday's independence vote is formally tallied, Montenegro is widely expected to secede from Serbia, and the Kosovo province is in (tense and stilted) secession talks sponsored by the United Nations. It's not hard to see why some people might not be sometimes wistful for the days of brotherhood and unity, when the cry "Sarajevo!" meant Winter Olympics and school children were taught to respect the many faiths and traditions that once made up a now vanished ideal known as Yugoslavia.

 

[rvaubel]

One of unrealized values of the cold war was that the existance of a two major powers with well defined idealogies kept local ethnic and religious punks at bay. Tito was really a product of that tension.
Rex

 

[nikola]

I still remember with warmth in my heart... a great, grat man!!!

 

[darkkavenger]

The photos of his last days made me cry. 🙁

 

[Todd Frederick]

He had the same Polaroid 250 I have, with the nice silver Zeiss rangefinder! I wonder if his battery worked. Mine doesn't! 🙁

 

[Kev T]

I'll justify my ignorance of Balkans history by my ethnic overseas born Chinese heritage 😀, but I do know enough that a Serb started the first great war by assasinating an Austro-Hungarian Arch-Duke, and Adolf's invasion of the same territories had a lot to do with starting the next world war...

My early memories of Tito (The Marshall) was from a movie in which Richard Burton plays Tito, and telling everybody from Churchill to Stalin to go to hell!

Oh, I'm a big fan of Tito (the band leader) too!

 

[VinceC]

Not quite enough resolution to make it out, but that just might be a Nikon. (Or might not.)

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Not quite enough resolution to make it out, but that just might be a Nikon. (Or might not.)

We could use one of those magic computers that are so prevalent on TV here. You know, the kind that "finds" resolution where there is none.

 

[ch1]

neat photos, have you got more pics of Tito with " camera" ?

I also seen pics of Nikita Khrushchev with a Hassy and an M Leica, seems he was also a big photo buff. ( no Soyouz/Kiev MF and Zorki 35mm cameras for this communist either).

no, don't tell me Khrushchev was also not "a real communist ."

Heck, I hear tell that the shoe he banged on the UN table that time was made by Prada! 😱 😀

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

He had the same Polaroid 250 I have, with the nice silver Zeiss rangefinder! I wonder if his battery worked. Mine doesn't! 🙁

Here's your battery Todd:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7521794706&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

Wayne

 

[polval]

Tito was passionate photographer. He had different types of Nikon and Polaroid, to name a few.

I am not sure but this one looks like Praktika:

http://kafotka.net/1370