Many years ago (1969, to be exact) I met Walt Edwards, who was then a senior photographer with National Geographic. We shot some stuff at the same time, and chatted about cameras, etc. At the time, IIRC, he said the preferred SLR brand for staff photographers at NG was Nikon, and he had on assignment with him at least four F bodies, some Photomic heads, and about twenty(!) Rollei "potato-masher" flash-guns. I think he also mentioned that Canon and Leica rangefinders were used by some staff and free-lance photographers. Other SLR's he'd noticed in use included Pentax, particularly the comparatively small and light Spotmatics, and Mamiya. TLR's were, of course, also much in use.
But no, I never found a way to reliably determine which camera(s) were used for any particular article or photograph. HTH John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:10 AM Subject: The Cameras of National Geographic > The National Geographic has some great photos in every issue, never more > evident today while I was perusing a back issue. Is there a way to find > out > whether a photo was taken with film or digital, and maybe even information > on the cameras or film that was used? > > One of the stories in that back issue seems to have been photographed, at > least in part, with an M-Series Leica > > > Shel > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
