Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] Leica in movies: Chinatown
From: Martin Howard <marho@ikp.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 16:06:46 +0200

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.

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