Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/27

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Subject: R: Leica's on Television...
From: "GuidoRidoli" <guirid@numerica.it>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 21:50:53 +0200

In Italy On Discovery Channel I saw a 'sketch' about the history of leica
Camera in Wetzlar
with Ur-leica, m3, m6 and so on.
It was beautiful

Guido Ridoli    (M-system fan)   =20
Brescia, Italy
guirid@numerica.it

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| Da: David Young <youngs@IslandNet.com>
| A: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
| Oggetto: Leica's on Television...
| Data: marted=EC 27 maggio 1997 12.14
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| Last evening, on The Learning Channel (Discovery Channel in the US) the=
y
| showed a documentary called SIDESHOW!, about the history of human
"freaks"
| and their history in Circus sidshows.  In it was featured a photographe=
r
(I
| missed his name - sorry!) who was photographing some of the remaining
| living relics of this era, using what appeared to be a gold-plated
Leica-M.
|  Couldn't get a good enough look to determing which one though...
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| He was shown using both a 50mm and what appeared (from the finder) to b=
e
a
| 21mm. =20
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| cheers!=20
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