Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No doubt, a 75mm Summilux! :o}~ - ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy Zartarian <royzart@connix.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 5:28 PM Subject: [Leica] Leica in literature > LUGs, > > In the past we've discussed the appearance of the Leica in films and > television commercials. > > I recently came across a mention in the novel "Falsely Accused" by > Robert Tanenbaum (whose fiction, I think, a good read) where one of > the principal characters, a reporter, "waited in the shadowed > hallway, pulled from her bag a Leica M3 loaded with ASA 400 > black-and-white film, and looked through its eyepiece ... (the > reporter) silently snapped two frames and put the camera back into > her bag." Too bad the author didn't identify the lens, too. > > Roy >