Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Robert De Niro and Leica
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:39:11 -0400

At 12:27 PM 4/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, when Bob and I were having lunch in NY, he told me it was a 6.2
>although he personally uses a M6 (non-TTL) for his personal shots......
Right, the Don Vito Corleone Anniversary Model, with the baby seal skin,
platinum top and bottom plates, platinum Noctilux, and matching platinum
plated Colt Cobra .38...



- ----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 12:16 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert De Niro and Leica
>
>
>"N.S. Ng" wrote:
>> I have the Ronin dvd. No, I do not think it is an R7. I think it is the
>6.2.
>snip
>> > Did anyone pinpoint the model that was used in the movie Ronin?  Was
>> > it an R7?
>
>Well if "Robert De Niro and Leica" is a full blown thread I'm going to
>say that I remember a film in which De Niro played a fifties McCarthy
>Era Hollywood director/producer and gets blackballed. Based on an
>obvious real guy whose name escapes...
>He hands his son what looked like a Leica (getit?) 111d. It was briefly
>on the screen but was such a beaut that it was a germ for me to get into
>this thing!!!
>My Dad never gave me a 111d!!!! Just a Contarex Bullseye.
>Mark Rabiner
>