[rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
That story did not come from Duncan only, it's a well known and established
fact in the photographic literature. It's true that some of the Life
photographers accepted afterward that they were comparing new lenses with their
old German lenses when they visited the Nippon Kogaku factory as I wrote
yesterday, but the surprise about the Nikkor lenses performance was real and
authentic at the time.
Jacob Deschin, a well known technical photographic issues and cameras
descriptions and use books, certified the Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses
excellent quality in an article he wrote for the New York Times on December 10,
1950, "Japanese camera", I have already copied this article in part in a
previous post.
You can read the Jacob Deschin obituary in the following New York Times 1983
article:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/21/obituaries/jacob-deschin-camera-editor.html
Carlos
--- El sáb 26-sep-09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> De: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: sábado, 26 de septiembre de 2009, 11:09 am
> At 07:18 AM 9/26/2009, Laurence Segil
> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> As already noted, yes. Duncan had committed himself
> early and hard to the Nikon-is-superior school and it would
> have required him to hope into his chariot and ride it
> frantically around the arena backwards to be able to retract
> his earlier stories. He had gone international on this
> in his initial fights with the Tokyo photo-editors in JUN
> 1950.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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