Lancelot Vining
, 'Daily Mirror' press photographer and Wing Photographic Officer, Royal Flying CorpArtist of 1 portrait
by Lancelot Vining
bromide print, circa 1944
NPG x139962
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Adrian Falks
19 August 2021, 11:48
I came across Lancelot Vining when he was a columnist for Amateur Photographer magazine, about 1960. I read avidly everything he wrote but did not realise what a distinguished career as a photographer he'd had.
The saddest thing I read was on the occasion when he said he was exchanging his camera (a Leica, I assume) which had served him so well for a make that was easier to focus. I inferred from that remark that his eyesight had deterioted. There were hardly any cameras in those days that offered automatic focussing and those that did had crude mechanisms and poor quality lenses that would never have satisfied an expert such as Lancelot Vining.
One hopes camera he received in
exchange for his cherished miniature had a better viewfinder, perhaps an M series Leica, a Contax or a newly imported camera from Japan with a clearer viewfinder.
mark tupper
21 September 2021, 08:26
I have a copy of My way with the miniature. 12th edition. At that time he used a Contax 11, a Voightlander Vito B and an Ilford Advocate 11