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Subject: [Leica] m8 features prominently in a new movie ...
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Sun Mar 16 19:00:06 2008
References: <031720080100.14490.47DDC2C4000C60CF0000389A219792474103010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

Good eye Gene. The M8 would have the accessory shoe in the center of  
the top plate, not the side.

Len


On Mar 16, 2008, at 9:00 PM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:

> Looks like a Digilux 2 to me.  But yes it is nice to see some  
> Leicas being used in movies these days.
>
> Gene
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
>>
>>
>> a few years back i became a fan of a quiet thai movie called  
>> "shutter" about a
>> photographer who, in a very "omen" way, begins to capture photos  
>> of ghosts (that
>> look a lot like light leaks) on film. it's relatively low budget  
>> and doesn't
>> really bring anything new to the horror table, but it's a nice  
>> movie and has
>> some legitimate thrills in it. i ordered the VCD from a hong-kong  
>> distributer
>> after reading about it in some back issue of Asian Cult Cinema --  
>> WELL, long
>> story short, philfo just handed me a pair of tickets to ... tada  
>> -- AN AMERICAN
>> REMAKE because we know it's impossible for americans to watch a  
>> movie with
>> little words along the bottom -- the remake features what looks to  
>> be an M8 in
>> nearly all of the promotional photos:
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2536216832/tt0482599
>>
>> as someone who bought a leica in large part because of seeing one  
>> in a movie
>> (High Art was the one that tipped the scales for me) all i can say  
>> to solms is:
>> rock on! it's about time you got with the product placement.
>>
>> kc
>>
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