Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just looked at the episode on the ABC website out of the corner of my eye while watching the BCS National Championship. It's a DR without the eyes. Astute and extravagant choice, for an airline first officer with no obvious knowledge of photography buying a camera to encourage a budding photographer. Looks just like my favorite kit, a DS+DR+LM fresh from factory CLA bought from Foto Reichardt in Wiesbaden in 1980. ?howard On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Howard Ritter wrote: > I caught that, too (one of my favorite new shows). But I thought it was a > 50mm Summilux. Didn't rewind it like I shoulda to freeze the frame. Will > try to watch it online for the sake of excruciating correctness of detail. > > Mark my words?these two characters are headed for the darkroom, if you > take my meaning, once the ice-queen girlfriend turns out to be a horror > show. Stay tuned and see what develops. > > ?howard > > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > >> Sunday night I was watching the ABC series "Pan Am," set in 1963. Near >> the end of the episode, the co-pilot gives one of the stewardesses, who >> is studying photography on the side, "a professional camera." It was a >> nice, shiny Leica M3 with what appeared to be a collapsible 50mm >> Summicron. >> >> Nice period detail! I wonder if the M3 will reappear in subsequent >> episodes. And if it will help her take better photographs. >> >> --Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information