Combat Photographer Tells All

[Leika]

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/general-photography/65713-combat-photographer-tells-all.html

A fascinating read by:

Bob Hillerby
Combat Photographer
B 1/9th Cav, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
Republic of Vietnam 1966-1967


With interesting snippets about the M3, technicals, Burrows, Huet, Page. Long post.
Enjoy!

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[theRenaissance]

Hi thanks for sharing this, certainly very informative and insightful!

 

[magicianhisoka]

will be an interesting read for a long time to come

 

[artspraken]

Condom for lens cap is good idea

 

[raytoei]

hi, thanks for sharing. i tried to follow the thread all to 2009 but i didn't get a sense of the iso that they were using on tri-x. I know that they used f8 and pushed everything from there but no mentioned of the base iso. Any idea ?

raytoei

 

[Leika]

Good question. I think he did mention in one of the posts that film back in those days had low ASA/DIN but I'm not sure if he put some numbers down. Maybe you can post him this query; I'm sure he'll reply. Cheers.

 

[newghost]

Condom for lens cap is good idea

non-lub bro... he's talking about balloons! :hung:

 

[chewed]

2 brave chaps from Singapore, Terry Khoo and Sam Kai Faye, was famous combat photographers who died in Vietnam. If they had survived the war, they would have lots of interesting stories to tell too

 

[JacePhoto]

thanks for sharing, on flickr, i know a modern day war plane/ operations photographer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearskyphotography/