[rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
- From: Laurence Segil <ljsegil@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:00:23 -0500
Well, all this may be true, but I'm leaving the Nikon rangefinder behind
tomorrow to instead shoot with beautiful Zeiss glass on the SL66, ducking
(Duncaning?) the whole controversy.
Larry
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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