History on lens and camera from Vietnam era
Sep 16, 2017 07:22:04 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Nikon F mostly.
I've heard David Hume Kennerly speak twice.
He has a couple of them in the photo below.
Read his book, Shooter, available here.
Your question prompts me to read my copy again.
I've heard David Hume Kennerly speak twice.
He has a couple of them in the photo below.
Read his book, Shooter, available here.
Your question prompts me to read my copy again.
Thank you. Just ordered the book.
Sep 16, 2017 07:54:37 #
IcemanKS wrote:
Greetings.....
I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it was film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
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I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it was film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
iCE ðÃÂÃÂÃÂ
I was not a Navy photographer in Vietnam but in 1968 I was on special 100 man detachment to Okinawa for six months. Our unit was MCB 8 US Navy Seabees. We built ready barracks for in coming troops that were going to Vietnam. The largest base their is Kadena Air Force base. It was the first time ever I ever saw a B-52 bomber in person. The aircraft on ground was kept under 24 hr guard duty.
That year 1968 was the new 35mm Minolta SRT 101, (paid $110 w/50mm 1.4)not yet available in the USA. We did have a Navy photographer with our MCB 8 unit. I helped building the photo darkroom and was my start in photo developing and printing. LOVED it from that day and has seen it come a long way!
Here are three of my b&ws made in HUE Vietnam 1968 with my Minolta SRT 101. Camera is manual and lens is manual focus nothing auto. This was my start for my LOVE in photography. I am presently a disabled Vietnam Veteran. I still photograph using only my right hand. I have parallelsis on my left side from a stroke and I am left handed! CIAO, AP
w/Minolta SRT 101 Kodak TRI-X 400 ASA film see the joint in his mouth
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Placed boy on Honda took 1-shot w/Minolta & 50mm
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Perfume River HUE, Vietnam w/Minolta & 200mm
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Sep 16, 2017 08:11:31 #
A friend just gave me a Nikon Nikomat be bought while in Viet Nam. 50 mm lens, flash, mechanical release everything. I think it will be fun to shoot and play with.
Sep 16, 2017 08:19:13 #
I was a Marine door gunner in Vietnam with HMM-265 starting in 1966. Occasionally we had a correspondent fly into landing zones with us. He carried a Leica and a Nikon F. I always wish I had gotten his name but at the time I was busy. I think seeing this gentleman contributed to my love of Leica and Nikon today.
Dennis
Dennis
Sep 16, 2017 08:27:57 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Most war correspondents in 1962 were shooting Leica when the conflict began, but by 1964 the overwhelming choice was the Nikon F for its indestructible build, faster focusing, faster film loading, and better lens selection. Life magazine did a special issues on the war correspondents still and movie camera choices during the duration of the war.
The Vietnam "Police Action" ended in what 1973-74 with the airlifts from Saigon. So likely a lot of Nikon F's and a few Nikon F2's and similar sixties - early seventies Nikkormats. Nikon F: 1959-73; Nikon F2: 1971-80; Nikkormat models: 1965-78.
Sep 16, 2017 08:55:02 #
digit-up wrote:
For what it's worth, My younger brother was a Navy Photographer in the last years of the Vietnam "police-action". He served aboard the U.S.S. Ticonderoga. He always told be to buy and use CANON, and only CANON. digit-up!! P.S. I use em all, but mostly PENTAX. Love my K-1, K-S2, K-5 & even my K-01..Best glass, for the money, again, IMHO. RJM
Sep 16, 2017 09:13:27 #
On the cover of "Shooter", David Hume Kennerly's autobiography of his career at the time of the Vietnam war, he is in what looks like a foxhole with a Nikon and the 200mm f4 lens. (I had that exact lens at the time I was given the book and was shooting with my trusty Nikon FM.)
Sep 16, 2017 09:22:59 #
I have an autographed photo of the great Life photographer David Douglas Duncan who covered the siege of Khe Sanh hanging on my darkroom wall. He has A Nikon F and what appears to be a Leica hanging around his neck. (Sorry for the poor snapshot from my IPhone)
Sep 16, 2017 09:23:18 #
Leica and Nikon, especially the F.
--Bob
--Bob
IcemanKS wrote:
Greetings.....
I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it was film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
iCE 😎
I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it was film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
iCE 😎
Sep 16, 2017 09:24:15 #
Sep 16, 2017 09:27:29 #
IcemanKS wrote:
Greetings.....
I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it w >as film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
iCE 😎
I'm a Vietnam Vet and was wondering what a War Correspondent or photo journalist used for gear back in the day. Naturally it w >as film but I'm wondering lens and camera. Thanks, have a good day.
iCE 😎
From the movie "We Were Soldiers..., the reporters scene" showing them arriving after the battle of Ia Drang Valley. Joe Galloway, the reporter on the scene is shown using a black body Nikon F and 50mm lens throughout the battle while the reporters are depicted with a variety of still and movie cameras: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZw9DoU00c >.
Sep 16, 2017 09:37:43 #
billnikon
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TriX wrote:
I have an autographed photo of the great Life photographer David Douglas Duncan who covered the siege of Khe Sanh hanging on my darkroom wall. He has A Nikon F and what appears to be a Leica hanging around his neck.
That is a Nikon F with an prism metering top that read light from a built in light meter, not through the lens metering (pre FTN) with a 200mm f4 lens.
Sep 16, 2017 09:40:42 #
I was a Marine photographer in Vietnam, starting in March 1965. I was issued a Nikon F with 35mm fixed-focal length lens for photographing Marine Corps activities in the I Corps area. Sometimes I used a 58mm f/1.8 'normal' lens. Rarely, in base camp settings, I used an 85mm fixed focal length lens. We developed the film (almost always Kodak Tri-X panchromatic B&W 400 ISO) locally in makeshift darkrooms & sent the negatives Stateside to Marine Corps Headquarters. We rarely used Kodachrome (25 ISO). Rarely because we had to send it Stateside for processing, and never saw the slides produced, which went straight to HQMC in D.C.
Sep 16, 2017 09:51:10 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Nikon F mostly.
I've heard David Hume Kennerly speak twice.
He has a couple of them in the photo below.
Read his book, Shooter, available here.
Your question prompts me to read my copy again.
I've heard David Hume Kennerly speak twice.
He has a couple of them in the photo below.
Read his book, Shooter, available here.
Your question prompts me to read my copy again.
WOW! Great shot! I agree that the Nikon F was the camera of choice for professionals and advanced amateurs. A very talented pro
photographer told me in the 1970s that he liked the greater weight of the "F" compared to other brands/models because it helped
stabilize it for hand-held shooting. >Alan
Sep 16, 2017 10:00:37 #
billnikon wrote:
That is a Nikon F with an prism metering top that read light from a built in light meter, not through the lens metering (pre FTN) with a 200mm f4 lens.
Doesn't look like the non- ttl meter to me.
I don't see the meter lens on the finder, though it's not as clear as it could be.
More likely one of the later versions.
Have a look Here
Pre ttl
Photomic Tn
Photomic FTn
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