Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael Bell wrote: > He uses point and shoot cameras with "really nice Zeiss lenses" according > to the report. I'm not sure what camera that would be. What he used > looked like any old black point and shoot. He's gone through a few already > having dropped a couple out of the window of his cab and having spilled too > much food on some. This could well be either the Yashica T4/T5, or one of the Contax pocket cameras (similar to Minilux et al), or even a Contax G system. One version of the Yashica camera has both a normal viewfinder, and a waist-level viewfinder as well. > He seemed to take photographs so naturally and effortlessly. Even when he > snapped pictures of those in the back of his cab the people usually did not > know he was taking their picture. Hey, it's New York City - people probably didn't notice! It didn't look like a weapon, so people didn't think about it. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo a222@redrose.net