Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm recording it. Thanks, I'll look for it. :-) Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 12/8/2015 9:30 PM, Howard Ritter wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >