Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the film "Chinatown" (ran on Swedish TV last night) Jack Nicholson is using an LTM Leica at one point to take pictures of a man and his mistress, while perched on a roof (Nicholson, not the other one ;) Mounted on this camera is a black lens with a large front element, almost as wide as the camera is tall. From the distance to his subject, and his profession, this is clearly a telephoto (or long focus) lens. Does anyone know what it is? I couldn't find any suitable candidates when I scoured my Leica literature. M. - -- Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------