Giuliobigazzi Posted January 5, 2023 Share #61  Posted January 5, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) Always with the trusty vidom, no matter which focal length 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 5, 2023 Posted January 5, 2023 Hi Giuliobigazzi, Take a look here what 90mm lens did HCB use. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
williamj Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share #62  Posted January 5, 2023 Yes. I already had a VIOOH and lots of people hate or disparage the VIDOM so I had to get it. Things lean over when the camera isn’t horizontal apart from everything being left right inverted. So that’s interesting. He did use the SBLOO and the SBOOI iirc the lens codes after 1960. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 5, 2023 Share #63  Posted January 5, 2023 2 hours ago, frame-it said:  at an exhibit organized by the HCB foundation i saw this one, dont know the model Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!   That is the camera I mentioned. A silver I Model A. I have never seen a good enough photograph to determine if it has been chromed. Yes, I know that I Model As were produced with black paint. I have a significant number of I model As, maybe 9 or 10. Two of them don't have black paint at all. One just has brass and another one had been nickel plated. William 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frame-it Posted January 5, 2023 Share #64  Posted January 5, 2023 11 minutes ago, willeica said: That is the camera I mentioned. A silver I Model A. I have never seen a good enough photograph to determine if it has been chromed. Yes, I know that I Model As were produced with black paint. I have a significant number of I model As, maybe 9 or 10. Two of them don't have black paint at all. One just has brass and another one had been nickel plated. William it does have some brassing going on Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/356204-what-90mm-lens-did-hcb-use/?do=findComment&comment=4629825'>More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 5, 2023 Share #65  Posted January 5, 2023 2 hours ago, frame-it said: it does have some brassing going on Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! The furniture would be nickel, of course.  William  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMF Posted December 22, 2023 Share #66 Â Posted December 22, 2023 Has HCB ever used a Summarex 85/1.5 ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamj Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share #67 Â Posted December 26, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) On 12/23/2023 at 8:42 AM, JMF said: Has HCB ever used a Summarex 85/1.5 ? Yes. In an interview with Richard L. Simon circa 1952 in response to the question 'How do you hold the camera so still?' he says the following as part of the answer to the question. 'For example, I was using the Leica Summarex 85 mm at f/15, standing with one foot on the back of a chair and the other foot just anywhere. I was not balanced. This was in India at the time Gandhi was going to break his last fast --- just before he died. I got my picture, and it was blurry (shot at 1/15th of a second). But it was rather nice, I think. Harper's Bazaar used it as a double-page spread.' The interview was reprinted in Henri Cartier-Bresson Interviews and Conversations 1951-1998 Edited by Clement Cheroux and Julie Jones, Aperture, 2017, which I got about a month ago. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alemartinezc Posted December 27, 2023 Share #68  Posted December 27, 2023 (edited) Hi all The picture below shows HCB with which seems to be an M3 with a (probably) 9 cm lens. VIDOM always in place. BTW, the man barely visible to the right of the picture is Martin Luther King Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited December 27, 2023 by alemartinezc Misspelling 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/356204-what-90mm-lens-did-hcb-use/?do=findComment&comment=4963932'>More sharing options...
matfer Posted December 30, 2023 Share #69  Posted December 30, 2023 On 12/22/2023 at 10:42 PM, JMF said: Has HCB ever used a Summarex 85/1.5 ? Sartre's portrait. Camus' probably, too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrogallol Posted December 30, 2023 Share #70  Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) On 12/27/2023 at 3:10 PM, alemartinezc said: Hi all The picture below shows HCB with which seems to be an M3 with a (probably) 9 cm lens. VIDOM always in place. BTW, the man barely visible to the right of the picture is Martin Luther King Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Looks a bit like an 85mm Zeiss Sonnar or 85mm Nikkor to me? Edited December 30, 2023 by Pyrogallol 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted December 31, 2023 Share #71 Â Posted December 31, 2023 A Tele Elmarit for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted January 11, 2024 Share #72  Posted January 11, 2024 Find an another pîct in my archives about his camera Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/356204-what-90mm-lens-did-hcb-use/?do=findComment&comment=4983168'>More sharing options...
105012 Posted January 12, 2024 Share #73  Posted January 12, 2024 On 12/28/2023 at 2:10 AM, alemartinezc said: Hi all The picture below shows HCB with which seems to be an M3 with a (probably) 9 cm lens. VIDOM always in place. BTW, the man barely visible to the right of the picture is Martin Luther King Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! This could also be a Summarit 5cm f1.5. I think I see a focus knob... HCB did use the Summarit on that trip.  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik van Straten Posted January 14, 2024 Share #74 Â Posted January 14, 2024 I also think it is a Summarit. As far as I know Cartier-Bresson only used 50mm and 35mm lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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