Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](Found on tokyocamerastyle.com ) This recent commercial promoting tourism <http://www.jreast.co.jp/ikuze/?src=009> to the Tohoku region <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dhoku_region> of Japan features a humorously sweet (and accurate) take on Japanese camera culture as a group of older male digital shooters enjoy the unexpected appearance of a young woman with a vintage Leica M4 and a 90mm f2.8 Elmarit lens. Indeed, this 30 second short story needs no subtitles. Enjoy! Note: Japanese commercials traditonally end with a punchline called an *ochi* <https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=3ZKFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA414&lpg=PA414&dq=ochi+punchline&source=bl&ots=75wqtw3QvJ&sig=_z7sIHs81P-0mb4jS0eGRx5bBzc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wb-gVLSGG8Xz8QXI24JA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ochi%20punchline&f=false>- the *ochi* of this film is the woman exclaiming ?*His head got in the frame*.? after snapping the shutter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Rgsq5JlSs#t=187 -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA