Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:27 PM 4/27/99 -0700, you wrote: >Well, when Bob and I were having lunch in NY, he told me it was a 6.2 >although he personally uses a M6 (non-TTL) for his personal shots...... Right, the Don Vito Corleone Anniversary Model, with the baby seal skin, platinum top and bottom plates, platinum Noctilux, and matching platinum plated Colt Cobra .38... - ----Original Message----- >From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] >Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 12:16 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert De Niro and Leica > > >"N.S. Ng" wrote: >> I have the Ronin dvd. No, I do not think it is an R7. I think it is the >6.2. >snip >> > Did anyone pinpoint the model that was used in the movie Ronin? Was >> > it an R7? > >Well if "Robert De Niro and Leica" is a full blown thread I'm going to >say that I remember a film in which De Niro played a fifties McCarthy >Era Hollywood director/producer and gets blackballed. Based on an >obvious real guy whose name escapes... >He hands his son what looked like a Leica (getit?) 111d. It was briefly >on the screen but was such a beaut that it was a germ for me to get into >this thing!!! >My Dad never gave me a 111d!!!! Just a Contarex Bullseye. >Mark Rabiner >