Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I saw this fat guy in the Munich painting gallery (altes-pinakotek - sp?) with an M6 and a Super-Angulon. No, really, Jack Nicholson uses a IIIf? in "Chinatown" and if I recall, with a telephoto. Of course the noise is louder than the real thing. Foley, you know. Bill Lawlor wrote: > While watching last night's Olympics broadcast, I saw one M in > photojournalistic use as one of the American male gymnasts was being helped > off the floor. > > Any other sightings? > > Roy > .................. > > Thanks for reminding me of a sighting last week. I enjoyed a great > German film, Aime and Jaguar, set in wwII Berlin. One of the > characters often shoots with a beautiful LTM Leica. Only two > technical erors: a flashbulb gun that repeats without reloading and a > view through the finder that reveals that it is a secret wartime > model that focuses exactly like a SLR. No rangefinder patch flare > problems with that model. Great film, nevertheless. > > BillLawlor - -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dante Stella http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante