Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:00 PM -0500 on 9/29/97, Eric Welch wrote: > At 01:52 PM 9/28/97 -0400, you wrote: > >simplicity in 35mm technology. When I worked in NYC I would inevitably see > >folks using a thread or M Leica. All the pros had one -- usually with a WA > >lens -- to hand, in addition to Nikons. > > In the movie "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, Elle > McPherson is carrying a Leica M6 in two of the scenes. And even uses it > with the characteristic slight "click" of the shutter being quite accurate. > Much better than Jurassic Park II's fake sounds of the Nikon F5 that scares > a dinosaur. > Eric, Several years ago I photo'd David Mamet for the Chicago TRIB in Mamet's ofc in Cambridge, MA, and environs. I was using my Leica M6. Mamet told me his then-wife had given it to him as a present. Since he's the author of "The Edge", maybe they "borrowed it" for the movie? Chris - ----------------- Christopher Morrow Christopher Morrow Photography Canandaigua, NY 716.394.8810 phone 716.394.4953 fax http://www.chrismorrow.com - -----------------