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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: June 2015
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Monday, June 29, 2015. FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS - HOW AND WHY THEY PHOTOGRAPH. The Leica Camera Blog, http:/ blog.leica-camera.com. Some time ago had a very interesting account of the thoughts of some rather famous photographers about their photography and photography in general. 8220;The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself” –Edward Steichen. For more infor...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: LEICA M2-250
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Sunday, August 2, 2015. One of the items he was interested to talk about was a Leica M2-250, an off the shelf camera that his father Norman Goldberg had converted in the 1960s to accept film for 250 exposures. I had never heard of this camera and I was eager to learn more about it. Camcraft N-5 motor with power supply. Camcraft N-5 motor attached to Leica M2. Oregon WI 53575 USA. Inventiv...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: July 2015
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. A LEICA AND THE "VEILED LADY”. Photoshop offers so many possibilities, I am reasonably sure that there are more than one way to accomplish this. I am certainly not saying that my way is the only way, but this is what I did. The next step was to change the colored image of the face to black and white and then using color correction to match the color of the superi...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: VIEW CAMERA CONTROLS WITH LEICA CAMERAS
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Friday, August 7, 2015. VIEW CAMERA CONTROLS WITH LEICA CAMERAS. However, post production is time consuming and not to the liking of everyone. Even though most image manipulation software is relatively easy to do, it still has a considerable learning curve, especially when it comes to more complicated operations like correcting for not using a view camera. In these two photograph by Ansel...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: LEICA CAMERAS USED BY NASA
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Monday, August 3, 2015. LEICA CAMERAS USED BY NASA. Modifications of the lens are large levers for the aperture and focus settings, all designed for easy operation with the gloves of the space suits. An intriguing question is if they might be still able to operate properly after all these years in the extremely harsh environment of the lunar surface. Already in the earliest stages of the ...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: ELSIE KÜHN-LEITZ HONORED IN WETZLAR
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Thursday, August 6, 2015. ELSIE KÜHN-LEITZ HONORED IN WETZLAR. Elsie Kühn-Leitz, daughter of Ernst Leitz II received a special honor from the city of Wetzlar. In Rasselberg, a new development of the city, a street was named after the former honorary citizen of city. Immediately after the end of the war, she promoted education and culture as the Wetzlar city councilor for Education and Cul...
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: 70th ANNIVERSARY OF A VERY FAMOUS LEICA PHOTOGRAPH
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LEICA Barnack Berek Blog on Pinterest. LHSA, the International Leica Society. L E T T E R S- T O- T H E- E D I T O R. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 70th ANNIVERSARY OF A VERY FAMOUS LEICA PHOTOGRAPH. It was 70 years ago that Alfred Eisenstaedt took this iconic photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse with his Leica on V-J Day in Times Square in New York City. After decades of dispute, the couple in the 1945 photograph were revealed to be 89-year-olds George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman. That moment was el...
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