His Posters

-- Yossi (yosslee@yahoo.com), April 23, 2002

Answers

Rollei TLRs

-- Roger (roger@yahoo.com), April 23, 2002.

In the 1930's started with Rollie TLRs and then in the late '40s started to use Leicas right up to the end, used Ms and SLRs.

-- Steve LeHuray (steve@icommag.com), April 23, 2002.

shhh!!! no one is supposed to mention MF here!!! people mite realize that a seagull, with its 3X neg size advantage, takes sharper pics (and don't even get into the tonality issue) at a give repro size than an m7 with the best summicron 50 that ever rolled off the assembly line.

-- roger michel (michel@tcn.org), April 23, 2002.

Hi all,

Last time I saw him in person we were both covering a demonstration of iron steel industry workers from Lorraine in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris) marching toward the heart of Paris... It was sometimes in the late sevzenties and he was using a 35mm SLR (Nikon FM or FE if I correctly remember). He was just at the left of me and we took a very similar pic that day.

I don't think Robert Doisneau cared much about the brand he used, excepts he surely knows what was the better adpated camera for the pictures he had to take on a precise assignment anyway...

Friendly

François P. WEILL

-- François P. WEILL (frpawe@wanadoo.fr), April 23, 2002.

Actors.

-- Stephane Bosman (stephane_bosman@yahoo.co.uk), April 23, 2002.

Stephane:

Best answer ever.

-- Marc Pilgrem (mpilgrem@hotmail.com), April 23, 2002.

OT reply;

I can only second the comment about the Seagull TLR. An AMAZING camera for themoney: 150 USin Shanghai.

I took some 12x prints on T MAX 400 back to the store from which I bought the camera in Shanghai and they would not beleive it came from their camera: they swore it was a Hasselbad shot.

Cheers

-- richard ilomaki (richardjx@hotmail.com), April 23, 2002.

I have been told by a pretty knowledgeable and experienced professional camera store employee that when Doisneau used the Leica, he used only the 50mm lens and couldn't understand why anyone would use any other focal length. Interesting story, if true.

-- Ben Crabtree (bcrabtree@mn.rr.com), April 23, 2002.

The book "Robert Doisneau: A Photographers Life," by Peter Hamilton, Abbeville Press 1995 New York has a chapter on technique which describes the various cameras the photographer used during his lifetime.

-- Jim Lennon (jim@jmlennon.com), April 23, 2002.

Si tu fais des images, ne parle pas, n'écris pas ne t'analyse pas, ne réponds à aucune question. [if you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.] (Robert Doisneau)

"If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time." (Robert Doisneau)

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@acm.org), April 24, 2002.