what a comrade...

[reagan]

So what were Pablo's favorite lenses? or did he just use one?

I dunno, but winding on the ol' FED sure made is hands strong!

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[Jocko]

That's the second time I've fallen off my chair in 12 hours! 😀 😀 😀

Looks like a case of the old Kharkov Finger!

Thank You Reagan!

Cheers, Ian!


Edit - in a similar spirit, may I offer Breughel's painting "The Country Wedding". One look and you know he'd have used a RF if they'd have had them in the 1500s... Look at that eye for detail - the terrified groom, the smug bride... and the man in red carrying the tray with the plates. See how well Breughel has painted his legs!? All three of them!

Bet he'd have liked photoshop!

 

[reagan]

Edit - in a similar spirit...

I like the Country Wedding. Good one. Looks like an RFF Meet! (I guess the three-legged guy would beeee.......... da Big Cheese 😉 )

 

[lushd]

Edit - in a similar spirit, may I offer Breughel's painting "The Country Wedding". One look and you know he'd have used a RF if they'd have had them in the 1500s... Look at that eye for detail - the terrified groom, the smug bride... and the man in red carrying the tray with the plates. See how well Breughel has painted his legs!? All three of them!

Bet he'd have liked photoshop!

Ian - centuries later, Degas paid Brueghel back by painting two tables with no legs. The lady in the picture is the partner of an RFF member who has just had a severe GAS attack. She has gone to the pub to drown her sorrows.

 

[Jocko]

Ian - centuries later, Degas paid Brueghel back by painting two tables with no legs. The lady in the picture is the partner of an RFF member who has just had a severe GAS attack. She has gone to the pub to drown her sorrows.

Donald and my beloved Comrades of the RFF, I should like to apologise unreservedly for what follows

Hence the phrase, "Getting Legless!", Boom Boom!

I have now sentenced myself to internal exile in the gulags of the Halina forum.

Please forgive me


Ian

 

[JimG]

Picasso with David Douglas Duncan.

 

[reagan]

Picasso with David Douglas Duncan.

Okay, two quick questions. . .

(1) Can anyone identify the cameras?
(2) Can anyone identify Pablo's pants?

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Why identify his pants. He is... Picasso!

Do I have to quote the Jonathan Richman tune?

 

[JimG]

Okay, two quick questions. . .

(1) Can anyone identify the cameras?
(2) Can anyone identify Pablo's pants?

The pants were discussed in "The Private World of Pablo Picasso" by David Duncan. Picasso had them custom made and was rather fond of them. Pants only cubist could love.

 

[lushd]

Donald and my beloved Comrades of the RFF, I should like to apologise unreservedly for what follows

Hence the phrase, "Getting Legless!", Boom Boom!

I have now sentenced myself to internal exile in the gulags of the Halina forum.

Please forgive me


Ian

Comrade - you have left me speechless with awe. Your wit is greater than that of Comrade Stalin himself.

(Sorry Ian - I stayed up all night trying to think of a suitable punishment for that remark and feeble sarcasm was the best I could do).

 

[Jocko]

Comrade - you have left me speechless with awe. Your wit is greater than that of Comrade Stalin himself.

(Sorry Ian - I stayed up all night trying to think of a suitable punishment for that remark and feeble sarcasm was the best I could do).

Don't worry Comrade! Feeble is my native tongue!

 

[claidemore]

Okay, two quick questions. . .

(1) Can anyone identify the cameras?
(2) Can anyone identify Pablo's pants?

It would appear that Duncan is holding a screw mt Leica (note the slow speed dial in front) with an accessory viewfinder, possibly for a wide angle lens?

Harder to see the camera Picasso is holding, but it does appear to have a stepped topline, and in the second photo it looks like you can see the slow speed dial. That camera looks bigger than the Leica which Duncan is holding, and it has a strap, so the strap might be attached to the ever-ready case? The viewfinder is squinty though, cause Pablo is definately squinting in the second photo! My guess, Leica in it's case with an 85mm lens.

 

[Jocko]

I'm sure you're right Claidemore, in which case the absense of an accessory finder on Picasso's camera perhaps suggests it could be a IIIg?

Cheers, Ian