Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And, if I recall, Jack Nicholson employs a screwmount (can't tell which) with an Imarect and long lens in -Chinatown-, and, of course, the journalist in -Das Boot- uses a IIIc (perhaps)--uses is generous. One wonders what emulsion he's shooting w/o flash with his Elmar in the dim light of a U-Boat's bridge. In the "director's cut" there's a marvelous scene in the wardroom where he ostensibly cleans the lens. The actor is clearly clueless . . . Chandos At 05:24 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >The opening scene of the Disney movie "Mighty Joe Young" has a woman >photographing gorillas with an M6 and what looks like a 90. > >Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 5:02 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Movies - Leica Product Placement > > >>"George of the Jungle" showed this woman explorer with a chrome M3 round >>her neck and snapping pictures of the jungle man. >> >>Dan K. >> >> >>At 06:23 AM 13/1/99 +1100, you wrote: >>>'Xcuse if this is old hat... >>> >>>Just saw the trailer for the new Robert DeNiro film >>>'RONIN' - noticed in one surveilance scene, they are >>>using an black R7(?). Way to go Leica! >>> >>>Last time I saw an L-box in a major film was in 'Addicted >>>to Love' where Meg Ryan slouched about with a chrome M6. >>> >>>Other than that, it always appears to be Nikons: F4s for >>>'Heat' and the F5 for 'The Edge' (with Baldwin & Hopkins). >>> >>>Regds, >>> >>>Andrew Nemeth >>> >>>VR MEDIA SOUND PHOTO JAVA >>>nemeng Warrimoo Australia >>>www.nemeng.com >>> >