## Metadata - Author: [[John Naughton]] - Full Title: Why I Love My Leica - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/24/why-i-love-my-leica-john-naughton-photography-camera-technology-cartier-bresson ## Highlights - When he came home, Parfit developed his photographs and sorted them. "Of a thousand pictures," Macfarquhar writes, "he might keep three. When he decided that a picture was worth saving, he took it to a professional processor in London and had the processor hand-paint out all aspects of the image that he found distasteful, which meant all evidence of the 20th century – cars, telegraph wires, signposts – and usually all people. Then he had the colours repeatedly adjusted, although this was enormously expensive, until they were exactly what he wanted – which was a matter of fidelity not to the scene as it was but to an idea in his head."