[rollei_list] Re: e: speaking of war photography

Iam a big fan of SWAT-Team type "range bags" for field use.  Lots of
places in the little ones for an afternoon with 2 35s, and the big one
holds Rolleis too..

Peter Nebergall
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:25:54 -0400 Marc James Small
<marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> At 09:18 AM 10/23/2007, Jan Decher wrote:
> >Marc:
> >In this context,  a very entertaining read, 
> >highlighting one German war reporter's life:
> >
> >Walther Benser: "My Life with the Leica" (1990 
> >Hove Photo Books) with a nice gallery of Benser's pictures 
> annotated by him.
> >After the war Benser worked for Leitz to promote 
> >their gear around the world incl. in the US with 
> >slide shows of his  pictures using two Prado 500 
> >projectors.  He even drilled himself to give his 
> >talks in several languages without really 
> >knowing all of them.  Did you ever see him?
> 
> I corresponded briefly with Benser but never met 
> him.  I have owned a number of Benser cases over 
> he years and agree with Allen that these are more 
> for collectors than users:  I will stick with my 
> Billingham for the Leicas and with a 
> Falklands-War-era Royal Engineers kit bag for my 2.8GX.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
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