[LargeFormat] WWII signal Corp newsgroups
Les Newcomer
largeformat@f32.net
Thu Jan 2 11:40:54 2003
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 05:53 AM, mark blackman wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com>
>
>
>> Most everybody knows that 90% of WWII was shot... er taken with Speed
>> Graphic cameras.
>
> Really? This was the camera used by the soviet forces? And the Japanese,
> German, and Italian?
>
>
Well there were a few taken by the German airforce with odd gold plated,
red dyed lizard skin covered Leicas. You can tell these apart from the
civilan versions because they say "Luftanza" on them. but since this is
the LF format I didn't want to bring up the "L" word.