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

[Jim Shulman]

Not at all, since every theater performance I've attended in the past
decade begins with a request to silence all electronic devices.

If, after the warning, she's that inconsiderate, juice away!

Jim Shulman
Wynnwood, PA
Who today threw an apple at an SUV that blew past me in a crosswalk.  The
apple landed smartly on the back window.

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On
Behalf Of Douglas Barry
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:54 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M's are perfect for theater photos

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.jp
g


Also, Hamlet opens October 23.

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