[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex and Margaret Bourke-White
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:06:45 -0300
Jerry and Bill:
It's evident you did not read my second message,
I clarified its a Canon IIIc and sent an URL for the comparison, it's
a very close Leica IIIc copy.
The URL again:
http://basepath.com/wp/?p=416
Carlos
2010/10/8 Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/25zgjnu
>>
>>
>
>
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