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From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 07 December, 2002 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM vs. Leica
> At 10:27 12/6/02, John Hudson wrote:
>
> >If Oskar Barnack's light box acquired its reputation by accident there
are
> >and have been a lot of confused people out there, Robert Capa and
> >Cartier-Bresson among them!.
> >
> >jh
>
> Correction:
> Robert Capa's German RF was a Zeiss Ikon Contax II made in the 1930's. He
> carried it and a Rollei TLR during the D-Day invasion at Normandy, and
used
> them both (somewhat ironic that both his cameras were German). The ZI
> Contax II was one of the two RF's around his neck when he was killed by a
> land mine in the early 1950's. The other was a Nikon S?? made during the
> early 1950's. Very similar to the Zeiss Ikon Contax in appearance, lens
> mount and operation except the Nikon has a horizontal cloth shutter (the
ZI
> Contax II, III, IIa and IIIa all have vertical metal shutters).
>
> -- John
What did Capa use for his famous shot "Death in Action" taken in the Spanish
Civil War?
jh
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