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To: archy
I believe Weegee used a Speed Graphic Camera.
148 posted on 02/12/2002 9:25:42 AM PST by Inge_CAV
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To: Inge_CAV
Weegee Fellig was certainly best known for his classic 4x5 inch photos taken with his Speed Graf, which offers those beautifully large negatives that make clear and sharp darkroom work seem easy. Well, if you're good at it anyway.

But he used a few other rigs for special purposes, though he was indeed a master of both the Speed Graf and it's nighttime use with flash, another skill that requires both intuition and experience.

And if his monochrome images capture some memorable moments, so do those of many other photogs simultaneously blessed and cursed with the equipment of those days. O Winston Link immediately comes to mind, as do Will Counts and Dick Bell.

But that mug of Weegees was made for a Speed Graphic, indeed. I wonder what he'd have thought of digital photography and Photoshop- he was quite the image manipulator.

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155 posted on 02/12/2002 10:55:10 AM PST by archy
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