Hi, I think those shots, all from the early 1950s, were made with a pre-production, experimental Leica M3. It has long been Leica's habit to have Magnum photographers test them, and recently Klaus Bjorn Larsen tested the M7 for them.
Some of Elliott Erwitt's contacts from the time show the same effect and I recall that he mentioned the camera in a talk I went to last year. I imagine the film gate (is that what it's called?) was slightly larger than 24x36cm, and corrected in the production model, which came out in 1954. The exposed rectangle is not entirely centred either. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, April 24, 2002, 2:59:15 PM, you wrote: > Not really. It could have been added in the same way you add a black border > to your prints. > Lukasz > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Paris, Leonard > Graphic evidence that the pictures were uncropped, I guess, right? > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > When i saw his exhibition from memory all the shots i saw had the sprocket > holes on the end of frame actualy on the print. Not saying all his shots > were like this, just the ones i saw. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
