[Leica] Leica Sighting in "Coraline"

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Coraline used an M3 to take pictures of her friend in this scene,
> about the last thing I expected to see in a cartoon drama.  There must
> have been a Leica fan on the animation team.  When the camera cut to a
> through the finder view, there was the single M3 50 mm frame line just
> where it belonged (though stretched to 16:9, for artistic purposes, I
> suppose).  She's left eyed, too.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/300_5353.jpg.html
> 
> Taking pictures off the TV set was easy once I realized you had to
> move the camera in and out from the screen until you found a distance
> (actually magnification, I suppose) that defeats the moire.  Screen
> capture is not allowed from DVDs in a Mac.
> 
> "Coraline" was great fun, BTW.  I really enjoyed it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dick
> 


Don't defeat the moir?.
You must go to the moir?.
Tell moir? Mark sent ya.

It's in focus if you get the moir? I think.
That's the pixels you've nailed.
They wont dance around so much in the final image.

Mark William Rabiner