Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How would that sound?... "waited in the shadowed hallway, pulled from her bag a Leica M3 serial number 54754xxx with a Noctilux f./1.0 lens, loaded with Kodak Tri-X ASA 400 black-and-white film, and looked through its brightline eyepiece ... (the reporter) silently snapped two frames and put the camera back into her bag." great literature...! (-: just for fun..., Peter >From: "Roy Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] Leica in literature >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:28:16 +0000 > >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 > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com