[rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
- From: Laurence Segil <ljsegil@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:18:16 -0500
Coming into this discussion quite late, but it seems to me a salient fact
that in the afterward "Photo Data" to his book *This is War* David Douglas
Duncan tells the story of his discovery of the quality of the early Nikkor
lenses and his subsequent use of them on his Leica III. Had he a reason to
fabricate such a story for his book? No mention, to no surprise, of Capa
and whatever role he may have played or what he chose to use. I imagine you
already considered this evidence before I began following the thread, and if
so I apologize for the possible redundancy, but introduce the book as the
word of a primary source, I would think without much of an axe to grind,
although at the time the book came out (1951) Duncan was not the icon he is
today and perhaps could have been seduced by industrial largess (I also
don't know if the afterward was part of the original 1951 edition or my have
been added for one of the reissues of the book in 1967 or 1990). For what
it's worth.
Larry
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> At 12:35 AM 9/26/2009, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>>I'm afraid rhat your facts are confused, the Nikkor 1.4/50 was
>>introduced to the market in __July 1950__; the Nikkor 1.5/50 was
>>introduced in January 1950 using Japanese glass manufactured in the
>>Shinagawa-Ku plant, Tokyo, not Schott glass (Source is the Nikon
>>official web site, these are historic facts, not hype).
>
> Yeah, right, Carlos. The Nikon website? Yeah, right. Asking Nikon for
> facts is like asking your local Ford dealer who makes the best cars.
Nikon
> has every reason to try to preserve the legend and the hype and not the
> facts. We really should have had this exchange 15 years back when I had
all
> my references at hand: most are now buried in my garage and my Nikon
books
> were all passed on to a researcher in the late 1990's. There is a also a
> large amount of information available in the reports of the Occupation
> Government, incidentally, which includes the date when the Japanese
actually
> began to make glass (it was 1953) but I no longer have ready access to
these
> as they can only be found in a large academic library and I am not near to
> such at the present.
>
> Let's agree to disagree. If you like Mitsubishi-generated fable, more
power
> to you. Let's just end the conversation here.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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