[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex and Margaret Bourke-White
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:08:12 -0700
LOL. I would have to defer to you Jerry as the expert in these matters.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter,
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> Whatsamatta you? No unsure there. It IS a Canon.
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> Jerry
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> On 10/9/2010 8:59 AM, Peter K. wrote:
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> Not sure Jerry. Could be. But I do know that Leitz used her testimonial
> of Leica in their marketing of their 35mm cameras years ago.
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> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Carlos,
>>
>> I hate to burst your bubble, but I do believe that the other camera
>> appears to be a Canon
>> or another Japanese copy of the Leica. NOT a Leica.
>>
>> You may choose to disagree.
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>> Jerry
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>> CarlosMFreaza wrote:
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>>> Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was the first female war
>>> correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat
>>> zones during World War II.
>>> "The woman who had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the
>>> Luftwaffe, stranded on an Arctic island, bombarded in Moscow, and
>>> pulled out of the Chesapeake when her chopper crashed, was known to
>>> the Life staff as 'Maggie the Indestructible. This incident in the
>>> Mediterranean refers to the sinking of the England-Africa bound
>>> British troopship SS Strathallan which she recorded in an article
>>> "Women in Lifeboats", in Life, February 22, 1943.(Wikipedia)
>>> The first Life magazine cover when it mainly became a photo-report
>>> magazine in 1936 was a Bourke-White photograph about a dam.
>>> I found these post-war images showing Margaret Bourke-White loading
>>> her Rolleiflex 2.8C, the first one shows a Leica too.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2fful3r
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/25zgjnu
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>> --
> Peter K
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