[Leica] Leica M's are perfect for theater photos

[Douglas Barry]

Kyle,
I thought the only one left alive in the final scene of Hamlet was Horatio, 
until Fortinbras walked in... This is artistic licence I take it? At least 
the WHIK-CHUNK-WHERRR of the M9 is a bit better than that damned Nokia tune 
that inevitably goes off in the middle of a play from the handbag of some 
elderly matron a few rows beyond me.

The sudden intense noise is followed by an equally intense struggle with her 
handbag, intense fumbling in the dark trying to turn it off, and a blessed 
resumption of the play. This happened at two plays I was at on the 1st and 
4th of this month. I should have come armed with a few mandarin oranges. 
They would have been perfect for administering swift arcing justice against 
the miscreants' heads.

Oh, maybe I'm getting a bit more right wing in my old age....

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kyle cassidy on the lug" <leicaslacker at gmail.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:59 PM
Subject: [Leica] Leica M's are perfect for theater photos


The incomparable Leica M9, a fire exit propped open and a precarious ladder 
to a causeway above give a view of the stage not known by people even in the 
most expensive seats. During periods of high action (sword fights and 
shouting) the M9’s quiet shutter is unnoticed by the cast and audience 
members. In the quiet, final moments of the play, when nearly everyone is 
dead, the last lines are spoken, in a theater where you can hear the tears 
begin to well in the audience members eyes, the WHIK-CHUNK-WHERRR! of the 
shutter, now like the sound of an imploding building in a sea of silence, 
draws the eyes of the actors directly to you, creating a priceless image, 
possible only with this camera.

M9, 28mm f2.8 Minolta Rokkor, ladder.

http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2014/jennifer-summerfield-hamlet-hedgerow.jpg


Also, Hamlet opens October 23.

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