[Leica] M Sighting--Victoria's Secret Leica!

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Just before turning off the TV after the preview of next week?s ?NCIS New 
Orleans? (yes, that is the actual reason that I caught this!), I saw the 
first few seconds of the Victoria?s Secret TV special on CBS. For a fraction 
of a second, there was a (staged, I?m sure) scene of what purported to be 
The Press Breathless With Excitement. There was the obligatory fellow with 
the Scary Big Nikon and, in the left foreground, a highly decorative young 
lady with a demure M6 in front of her face (since it was a film camera I 
know it was staged). From the position of the preview lever and the 
appearance of the lens, I think it was a 35mm ?cron. Maybe ?lux.

The scene appeared for only a fraction of a second, I think, but my 
recognition circuitry flashed ?LEICA ALERT!?, though I had to rewind and 
pause for a longer look to identify the model (of the camera!). My wife, 
watching all this, was dumbfounded that in that brief glimpse casually seen 
I was able to recognize the camera as a Leica. (She said the camera is not 
what I was supposed to be looking at.) I explained that in my sixth decade 
of Leica-ing, the Leica M ?gestalt? is so imprinted in my brain that nothing 
escapes my notice. As with all of us.

She wants me to have my testosterone level checked.

?howard