Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] Tank Man
From: john at mcmaster.co.uk (John McMaster)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 06:37:59 +0000
References: <1484577085.454.1556621772271@wamui-gaston.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <04fc3618-48aa-5dee-c19a-b929e428bba2@iol.ie> <CAH1UNJ02A0JEmaDB6sKvtRVtDQ08-N8Q8hGciZVGJCGU8VqbHA@mail.gmail.com>

I do not think that the film was done by Wetzlar, it was Saatchi & Saatchi 
for a South American distributer?  AFAIR they did one a couple of years ago 
that was also controversial....

john

-----Original Message-----

No, it is not a fanboy site, but they post rumours gleaned from sources
within the companies, and also run similar sites for Canon, Sony and Fuji.

If you had followed the links given, it would have led you to these two
sources for their reporting:

https://petapixel.com/2019/04/29/sorry-leica-tank-man-was-shot-on-nikon/

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/

There is very little doubt that Leica screwed up big time with this
unnecessary short film, not so much for lack of due diligence, but for
imperiling their own goodwill and possibly some access to their biggest and
most important market, China.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:53 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> But was it clarified that he didn't use the Leica and instead used the
> Nikon, especially when the source is Nikon Rumours - a Nikon fanboy site?
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 30/04/2019 11:56, Montie via LUG wrote:
> > Yeah, definitely a few essentials fell through the crack on
> > this one. I wonder how many management heads "rolled" (if any).
> >
> > Montie
> >
> >
> >>> Not only was the film, "Leica - The Hunt" a brain dead marketing ploy,
> but
> > it seems to have been made without any attempt at due diligence
> whatsoever!
> > A problem that Leica brought on themselves - a true management goof up!
> >
> >
> https://nikonrumors.com/2019/04/29/the-iconic-tank-man-photos-were-shot-with-a-nikon-camera.aspx/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >



Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Tank Man)
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