Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/04

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Subject: Re: leica on tv and record covers
From: "Charles E. Love, Jr." <cel14@cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:42:31 -0500 (EST)

At 08:49 PM 11/4/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Paul Winkfield wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, next to buying & using my Leicas, i enjoy seeing them used IN
>> pictures or movies. The following will list a few I have found, can any
>> members of LUG add to my list?
>> 
>
>Just thought of another two.
>
>Roy Scheider in "Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture" uses a chrome M4 (I
>believe). There's a very odd sound dubbing in this film, the shutter
>noise is very audible and the Leica has got an internal motordrive!
>
>In Robert Altman's "Pret-a-Porter / Ready to Wear" there's a female
>photographer with a chrome Leica R7.
>
>Bert
>
Don't know if this counts, but there was a lot of stuff about 10 years ago
about how supermodel Christie Brinkley was a serious photographer, who used
an R4.  In fact, I remember a picture of her with an R4 slung over her
shoulder.--Charlie
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