[Leica] Leica Sighting in "Coraline"

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

The Minox DCC M3?

ric


On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Coraline used an M3 to take pictures of her friend in this scene,  
> about the last thing I expected to see in a cartoon drama.  There  
> must have been a Leica fan on the animation team.  When the camera  
> cut to a through the finder view, there was the single M3 50 mm  
> frame line just where it belonged (though stretched to 16:9, for  
> artistic purposes, I suppose).  She's left eyed, too.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/300_5353.jpg.html
>
> Taking pictures off the TV set was easy once I realized you had to  
> move the camera in and out from the screen until you found a  
> distance (actually magnification, I suppose) that defeats the  
> moire.  Screen capture is not allowed from DVDs in a Mac.
>
> "Coraline" was great fun, BTW.  I really enjoyed it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
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