Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Italy On Discovery Channel I saw a 'sketch' about the history of leica Camera in Wetzlar with Ur-leica, m3, m6 and so on. It was beautiful Guido Ridoli (M-system fan) =20 Brescia, Italy guirid@numerica.it - ---------- | Da: David Young <youngs@IslandNet.com> | A: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us | Oggetto: Leica's on Television... | Data: marted=EC 27 maggio 1997 12.14 |=20 | Last evening, on The Learning Channel (Discovery Channel in the US) the= y | showed a documentary called SIDESHOW!, about the history of human "freaks" | and their history in Circus sidshows. In it was featured a photographe= r (I | missed his name - sorry!) who was photographing some of the remaining | living relics of this era, using what appeared to be a gold-plated Leica-M. | Couldn't get a good enough look to determing which one though... |=20 | He was shown using both a 50mm and what appeared (from the finder) to b= e a | 21mm. =20 |=20 | cheers!=20 |=20 |=20 |=20