Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Sighting!
From: dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:14:32 -0400
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In other news, Mad Men last night depicted Don Draper giving a Leica camera 
to a rich doctor as a gift and commenting that he needed to read the 
instructions.

Dante

On Apr 8, 2013, at 3:58 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:

> Channel 2 ( CBS) had a show on today with George W. Bush's official
> photographer, Eric Draper.  In several of the pictures and video clips
> shown, he was using a Leica M of some type, especially in the offices and
> when meetings occurred.  I did not catch the model, but I thought it was an
> MP.  Might have been an M8.
> 
> 
> 
> He claimed to have made one Million photographs over the 8 years.
> 
> 
> 
> Mr. Draper has a new book out:  Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of
> the Presidency of George W. Bush
> 
> 
> 
> Several years ago, I remember a story that the only cameras allowed in the
> Oval Office were Leica RF cameras.  Maybe it is still true?
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
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