Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/28

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Subject: Re: Leica's on Television...
From: Adi <adisoon@pl.jaring.my>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:05:50 +0000

Discovery Channel's invention did a story on the Leica Camera some time
back. Featured was one of the winners of one of the recent years's world
press photo competition. I think the theme of the essay was about gambling.
Anyone know what I'm talking about. 

- --adi

At 10:14 AM 5/27/97, you wrote:
>Last evening, on The Learning Channel (Discovery Channel in the US) they
>showed a documentary called SIDESHOW!, about the history of human "freaks"
>and their history in Circus sidshows.  In it was featured a photographer (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...
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>He was shown using both a 50mm and what appeared (from the finder) to be a
>21mm.  
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>cheers! 
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