----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter J Nebergall" <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:04 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Serial No's
I'm working on a WW2 novel, where the protagonists are all photographers.U.S. press and military photographers used mostly 4x5 Speed Graphics up to the end of WW-2. Rolleiflex's were used mainly by magazine photographers, not newspaper photographers. 35mm cameras were rarely used. Most publications would not accept 35mm images unless they were of exceptional news value (National Geographic Magazine was the notable exception. They used 35mm Kodachromes from the time the film became available).
My main characters are the Englishman Eric Gilchrist, using Reed 35s,
the German Werner Erler, using Contaxes, and the Japanese Nishiko
tachihara (and no one has been able to tell me what Domei issued to its
people, recognizing most of the "great ones" are postwar -- perhaps
Kwannons?) Any Ideas?
As my teacher was a man like this, American Lester Wilson, who used Speed
graphics and lost a leg at Iwo Jima, I way well work in a bunch more...
Capa shows up, as do Steichen and Duncan...
If I get something pertinent up , I may post a few pages... It'll have
to have Rollei's in it.
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