Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica in literature
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:32:58 -0400

No doubt, a 75mm Summilux!   :o}~

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Zartarian <royzart@connix.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 5:28 PM
Subject: [Leica] Leica in literature


> LUGs,
>
> In the past we've discussed the appearance of the Leica in films and
> television commercials.
>
> I recently came across a mention in the novel "Falsely Accused" by
> Robert Tanenbaum (whose fiction, I think, a good read) where one of
> the principal characters, a reporter, "waited in the shadowed
> hallway, pulled from her bag a Leica M3 loaded with ASA 400
> black-and-white film, and looked through its eyepiece ... (the
> reporter) silently snapped two frames and put the camera back into
> her bag."  Too bad the author didn't identify the lens, too.
>
> Roy
>