Winogrand technique with the 28mm

[Nemo]

He is my favorite photographer.

I tried to rationalize him:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Framing Art.shtml

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[Timmyjoe]

Garry used an M2 with a Canon 28mm f2.8 early on and eventually changed over to an M4 with a Leica Elmarit 28mm, the Canadian (Mandler) designed lens. Here he is with his M4 and the Leica lens.

Here is the same lens mounted on my Leica M6TTL with a Voigtlander viewfinder instead of the Leica viewfinder Garry used.

Somewhere I have an image of Garry with the M2 & Canon 28, but I can't find it right now.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Timmyjoe]

This image was taken by Mason Resnick during a class taught by Garry in 1976.

Garry can be seen with a Leica M4 and the Canon 28mm f2.8, but unlike other images I've seen of him with this combination, he has no external 28mm viewfinder on the camera. So I have to assume he was estimating the framing as the M4 does not have frame lines for 28mm.

Best,
-Tim

 

[ChipMcD]

That's interesting - 28mm on an M4 means that he was shooting wider than the framelines on the M4 show. I can't image him using an accessory viewfnder, with the technique described above.

I'm pretty sure (but not positive) that I've seen film clips of him shooting with an accessory finder. That wouldn't be a problem for someone who had a very practiced eye and a sense of what would be in focus using hyperfocal distance settings, and Winograd certainly had that.