Reply to post: "if he had a digital camera (impossible for sure) those images would have survived"

LG: Fsck everything, we're doing 16 lenses in smartphones (probably)

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"if he had a digital camera (impossible for sure) those images would have survived"

No, if the idiot tasked to "process" the images had formatted the card(s) and overwritten them before reading them.

Maybe it was good it was more difficult to wipe all of them at once.... although he did his best to destroy as many as he could.

Or maybe Capa would have found the batteries were dead... anyway, AFAIK he was using a Contax model - one of the best cameras of their times, for that kind of photography.

There is also a story about the "lost film" made on D-Day by an operator sent behind the lines in advance... it looks those people in London handling films from the shores of Normandy had drunk too much the night before....

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