Oh? Did Saul use smileys?
It's hard to tell, Eric: it is recorded that he refused a Leica in exchange for some of his paintings (when he was still a young man) and that he was eventually given one to use by - I think - a painter friend. He also used - or at least claimed to have owned - a 150mm lens at one period... but a smiley - that's
not recorded, AFAIK. I don't believe that rangefinder Leicas accepted 150mm optics, though, or what practical good they would have been if they had: I don't think Visoflex thingies accepted anything between 125mm and 180mm. (Hassy were thus not the first to think of 'locking in or out'!)
But it's not important: he also ended up using basic digital machines, too, and none of that - well, final - work has ever come to the attention of this humble historian. Perhaps his NY became as difficult to rediscover (if you can, indeed,
rediscover anything, ever) within what currently occupies that space as it is for me to find it in rural Mallorca. Surely, it must be somewhere? After all, the first law of physics was that matter can neither be created not destroyed, and NY certainly mattered and also created as many amazing photograhers as anywhere else, with the
possible exception of Paris (France).
If Graham will excuse me, I'm off to take a cup of tea. Well, of course, first I shall have to make it. Oh the horrors of living the hermit life! Even a cuppa becomes a big deal. Oh, look! I already have one here beside the computer - but it's gone stone cold.
Rob