Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's an M4-2... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicas on the small screen, redux! > Alas, a surfeit of Leicas on the screen last night. > The first was the "Wasp's Nest" episode of the Hercule Poirot mystery series > with David Suchet's marvelous portrayal of the fussy Belgian detective. His > sidekick, Captain Hasting had taken up photography, and was carrying what I > now recognize as a IIIa, with what appeared to be an Elmar 50. > Unfortunately, I was dismayed when the Captain muttered that he should have > brought the "150" instead of mentioning the wonderful 135 Hektor that would > have been in any decent Leica kit! > The other was the Nick Nolte movie, also with Ed Harris, where Nolte > portrays a photojournalist, and he has a couple of Leicas prominently > hanging around his neck- One looks like it might be a black M4 perhaps an > M4-P? This takes place in 1979, so I am not absolutely sure. He also had a > chrome Leica; it was hard to tell on the diminuative screen, but looked like > an M3. He also had a motorized Nikon, and a rather large bag- my first > thought that in a 'Shootin' War' situation, he was carrying a whole lot of > baggage! Personally, I think I would try to carry as little as possible and > still do the job, and have the ability to get real small and crawl into a > pocket when the LZ gets hot! > Dan ( In a Leica freefire zone) Post > >