Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/29

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Subject: Re: Who use Leica in the world?
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:10:14 -0400

At 12:00 PM 29-09-97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 01:52 PM 9/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>simplicity in 35mm technology. When I worked in NYC I would inevitably see
>>folks using a thread or M Leica. All the pros had one -- usually with a WA
>>lens -- to hand, in addition to Nikons. 
>
>In the movie "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, Elle
>McPherson is carrying a Leica M6 in two of the scenes. And even uses it
>with the characteristic slight "click" of the shutter being quite accurate.
>Much better than Jurassic Park II's fake sounds of the Nikon F5 that scares
>a dinosaur.
>
Last weeks episode of "Millenium" had a scene where Frank Black is
rummaging through an old cabin looking for clues (what else?); there is
what looks like a pristine M3 sitting on a book shelf.

Dan C.