Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:57 PM 5/13/2007, Charlie Meyer wrote: >I was leafing through a biography of Lord Mountbatten today and >spotted a photo of Himself attempting to give photography pointers to >the Queen. The MGB in the background had those awful early 1970s >steel wheels of that era. The caption noted that Mountbatten was >hardly endowed with photography skills, and Herself seems to be >politely enduring his counsel on using a 110 point and shoot. >Decorum aside, the Queen did have one of her chrome M Leicas round >her neck with its' neveready case open. Elizabeth was trained in photography on a Rolleiflex TLR by Cecil Beaton in the 1940's and early 1950's. Leitz then gifted her an M3 and the German Government later gave her a Contarex. Leitz later gave her a second Leica RF -- I believe that she, Hugo Eckener, and Erwin Rommel were the only folks to be given two Leicas. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!