Word: leicas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photostatic service began in 1920. Its first equipment was a Leica camera, which the staff heard about through an advertisement in the CRIMSON...
Unlike artier cameramen, Carder-Bresson has never felt the need of a studio or a darkroom. He still reloads his Leica under the bed, washes his prints in the bathtub. "Shooting a picture," says he, "is like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before shooting you think, you contemplate, you look, look, look, look. Then you shoot...
Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...
About seven years ago, the department started doing microstats. Starting with a second hand Leica camera, which had to be installed in a specially built frame-work to hold it, in place while in action, the work has grown in equipment to two automatic cameras which hold in hundred feet of firm as compared to the Leica's 35 frames...
...well-known and liked . . . was operating a restaurant in Valdez. . . . For reasons of his own he imported an oversupply of Jap dishwashers, cooks, second cooks, bakers. This superintelligent help would stay a few weeks, then disappear to be replaced by a fresh batch. Each employe was armed with a Leica or similar high-powered camera and spent most of his time away from his work taking pictures of the surrounding country...