[Leica] Historical leica sighting - What was Orrin's Leica?

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

I've been chewing my way through all his stuff; somehow it exactly suits my 
current state of mind. I think next I'll re-do Hammett.

Chandler gets pretty specific in using actual brand names, sometimes to the 
point of applying an idiom of the time that isn't always easy to translate. 
This is contrary to Rex Stout, who usually invented or contracted existing 
brand names for cars, razors, soda pop, etc., and had his character using a 
'Leitax' back in the same period.


----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:02:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Historical leica sighting - What was Orrin's Leica?

I really must re-read it. I am surprised that Chandler goes into that much
detail - or am I?

Peter

H. Ball Arche wrote:
> Also later in the text it's described as having an f2 lens, so a Summitar?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:09:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Historical leica sighting - What was Orrin's Leica?
> 
> So, The Little Sister was published in 1949 and is set in that period.
> 
> The camera's expensive, so new(?), so what do we reckon IIc or IIIc and 
> why? ;-)
> 
> Peter
> 
> H. Ball Arche wrote:
>> in Raymond Chandler's "The Little Sister", which I've just re-read after 
>> 30 years. I'd completely forgotten about how her older brother's using a 
>> Leica was central to the plot:
>>
>> "He studies a lot and he has a very expensive camera he likes to snap 
>> people with when they don't know. Sometimes it makes them mad. But Orrin 
>> says people ought to see themselves as they really are."
>>
>> "Let's hope it never happens to him, " I said. "what kind of camera is 
>> it?"
>>
>> "One of those little cameras with a very fine lens. You can take snaps in 
>> almost any kind of light. A Leica."
>>
>> -and on from there.
>>
>>
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