Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The second Leica RF was an M6 as can be seen here, http://www.angelfire.com/biz/Leica/ Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Royal Humor in Photography > At 09:57 PM 5/13/2007, Charlie Meyer wrote: > >I was leafing through a biography of Lord Mountbatten today and > >spotted a photo of Himself attempting to give photography pointers to > >the Queen. The MGB in the background had those awful early 1970s > >steel wheels of that era. The caption noted that Mountbatten was > >hardly endowed with photography skills, and Herself seems to be > >politely enduring his counsel on using a 110 point and shoot. > >Decorum aside, the Queen did have one of her chrome M Leicas round > >her neck with its' neveready case open. > > Elizabeth was trained in photography on a Rolleiflex TLR by Cecil Beaton > in the 1940's and early 1950's. Leitz then gifted her an M3 and the > German Government later gave her a Contarex. Leitz later gave her a > second Leica RF -- I believe that she, Hugo Eckener, and Erwin Rommel were > the only folks to be given two Leicas. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information