jim_britt1 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Well, it wasn't 2o years ago today, but it was 20 years ago that I took a fantastic trip with Bill Allard, Ernst Haas, Fred Maroon and others to Wetzlar (also Porto) to talk about the Leica system, especailly the R system and it's problems for the professional. The M6 (Classic now) had just come out and the results of the trip was the introduction of the R6. Most importantly it was the chance to really hang out and exchange with some extraordinary people. Thanks again to Walter Heun who put it together. working with my new epson 3200 I found this small snap of us... minus Fred Maroon. He must have been in the men's room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_britt1 Posted February 17, 2004 Author Share Posted February 17, 2004 ooops, wrong size.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry cabluck Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Walter Heun, ain't he a nice guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_rivera5 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 I want to know who are these two characters in the background? What do they now? Why are they not showing their faces? Are they working on the Digital M?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_rivera5 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 That should read "What do they know?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_britt1 Posted February 17, 2004 Author Share Posted February 17, 2004 Walter was and most likely still is..."the best." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john falkenstine Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 East German Spies......Every crowd had at least one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Heady company Jim. I'm very impressed. Could you give us a left -to- right "who's whom"? That would be Ernst Haas on the far right, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_britt1 Posted February 17, 2004 Author Share Posted February 17, 2004 OK... Left to right, back row, the guy who had been the head photog at US News & World Report, but oldtimers had messed up my memory...then it's Walter Heun, David Schlink (a fine photographer who was the Leica rep in L.A.), William Albert Allard, Ernst Haas, bottom row, Leica rep in Germany, Bill Varie L. A. photog. annual reports etc. and me L.A. entertainment photog. Missing is Fred Maroon, out of D.C. with an amazing career. You can google him and see his work. He passed away about a year ago. Ernst passed away quite some time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_piper2 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I went out for pizza and beer with Walter Heun and photog/columnist Bill Pierce (and a dozen other students) when they visited my college in (hmmmm?) probably late 1976 or early '77, doing a 2-day Leica dog-and-pony-show. I know the M5 was the current M-Leica at the time. Walter was a cut-up. He carefully demonstrated how you could steady the M5 for long exposures by holding it upside-down, with the back pressed against your forehead. "Ovf course, zen your pictures are all upzide-down - but zis, zis is no problem." he deadpanned. "Ven you project zem - you chust turn ze projector upside-down, alzo, and zen - zey project right-side up again." I guess Jim's shot is from a couple of years before the day Bill Allard read the riot act to the assembled Nat. Geo staff - and became persona non grata at NG until Gil Grovesnor (publisher, and chief target of the rant) retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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