Something Televisual For Leica Lovers
Discussion
Passing this on from elsewhere, might be an interesting watch:
Actor David Suchet has made a television documentary retracing the life of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer, Jim Jarche, who worked for Life, the Daily Sketch, the Daily Herald, and the London Illustrated News during the 1930s. The programme, in which David works with a Leica M3 to experience the challenges his grandfather encountered, is scheduled to be broadcast on ITV 1, at 10:35 pm, on Sunday, 25th March 2012. So if you want something to stimulate "the little grey cells"...
Actor David Suchet has made a television documentary retracing the life of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer, Jim Jarche, who worked for Life, the Daily Sketch, the Daily Herald, and the London Illustrated News during the 1930s. The programme, in which David works with a Leica M3 to experience the challenges his grandfather encountered, is scheduled to be broadcast on ITV 1, at 10:35 pm, on Sunday, 25th March 2012. So if you want something to stimulate "the little grey cells"...
Glad I remembered this was, really enjoying it so far. I love seeing the older images, when they were going through the archives the wartime ones were great.
Beyond just the eye for what makes a good photo, I think older stuff like that really does show off the photographers skill so obviously. My experiments so far with manual focus only film camera certainly taught me that getting a decent photo with that is a million miles away from picking up my dslr and doing so.
Beyond just the eye for what makes a good photo, I think older stuff like that really does show off the photographers skill so obviously. My experiments so far with manual focus only film camera certainly taught me that getting a decent photo with that is a million miles away from picking up my dslr and doing so.
What a loverly program and what a charming man David Suchet is. His grandfather's picture are absolutely wonderful, Davids pictures are pretty good too. Real photography, none of this agonising about what zoom lens and how many pixels… I have an M, but only crappy digital. Find myself shooting more film again but mainly B&W LF and Nikon F… I feel inspired and feel a film M in my future…
I loved that programme, David Suchet does seem to make good TV 
I do like looking at the older photographs, there is that air about them that makes them stand out. Something that missing in todays celeb / pap world, certainly from my experiances from behind the lens being pap. It seemed to me to be a wham bam thank you....
I know why he struggled in the FIBUA setup, he wasn't used to the environment.
I just hope the rest of the series is as good.
Another good 1, if you can find it is The Genius of Photography, originally shown on BBC.
I do like looking at the older photographs, there is that air about them that makes them stand out. Something that missing in todays celeb / pap world, certainly from my experiances from behind the lens being pap. It seemed to me to be a wham bam thank you....I know why he struggled in the FIBUA setup, he wasn't used to the environment.
I just hope the rest of the series is as good.
Another good 1, if you can find it is The Genius of Photography, originally shown on BBC.
Well, I only just got round to watching "Perspectives", myself. I don't sit down and watch TV very often these days, and didn't know they still make good programmes worth watching.
This was terrific. Very evocative stuff that the old boy had taken and an interesting comparison for his grandson to be trying to recreate. Loved everything from the street in Wales to Suchet managing not to swear when he ruined one roll of film, through to shooting Cameron and the Queen!
Fantastic!
This was terrific. Very evocative stuff that the old boy had taken and an interesting comparison for his grandson to be trying to recreate. Loved everything from the street in Wales to Suchet managing not to swear when he ruined one roll of film, through to shooting Cameron and the Queen!
Fantastic!
As a Leica (111c)owner myself, and retired newspaper photographer, I was really interested to see the programme. I'm sure David would have needed more time in handling the 111c than he did with the M3. Better viewfinder/focussing and lever wind-on. The 111c really made one concentrate,from the bottom loading system of the film, ensuring that the take-up spool was really in operation before winding on to the first frame.I still occasionally use my 111c, which makes me realise more so, how things have changed since it was my work-horse camera.Happy film photography days.
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