Leica on TV or the movies :)

That "nice" lady would the wonderful Audrey Tautou - the closest to the perfect woman God has fashioned in this day and age... (BTW, it appears to be an M9 - not that I was looking at the camera :p)

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A tv commercial, Channel no5. parfume...An express train going from Paris to Istanbul. A nice lady admiring a man follows him after they get off the train in Istanbul. She tries to take a shot of him with her M8 with Noctilux on it!!

The thing is she focuses like it is DSLR and the distance was so big for 50mm lens... :)
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Xax: Thanks very much for the link. Interesting in all ways. (Costa-Gavras was probably responsible for my early motor-drive lust on account of that Nikon F-toting PJ in Z.)

I just saw Nine last night with Galfriend. Besides the fact that I thought the film was a lot better than one of my fave critics thought it was (A.O. Scott), I was curious as to how the period details ware caught, especially the paparazzi (we're talking mid-1960s Italy here...this film is based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was based, more or less, on Fellini's 8½). Well, they got the cameras right (everything from the monster Speed Graphics to the smattering of Ms, Rolleiflexes and Spotmatics). But the flash units...those Metz potato-mashers with the ergonomic grips? Hot-shoe mounted electronic flash with what looked like a bounce head? There was electronic flash around at the time, but these weren't it. And, yes, I'm probably the only guy in a packed house that would notice this (and this "house" was hardly packed last night).

But, oh, what one would give for Guido's little Alfa...!

The film was shot stunningly, both in glorious (and real) black-and-white as well as color. Shame that I was stuck in a theater with DLP, which was just "okay." (Might go to see it again at BAM Rose, where I can see it projected the way it was shot...)


- Barrett
 
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There is a movie, somethign on the Midnight Meat Train, the main character has a Leica, that was when I first sort of started noticing cameras in movies :p
 
sara said:
There is a movie, somethign on the Midnight Meat Train, the main character has a Leica, that was when I first sort of started noticing cameras in movies :p
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Hmm...sounds a bit out on the fringe of filmdom, sara (even in the world of indies), but I might keep an eye out for it.


- Barrett
 
Watching the Today Show yesterday morning and a clip of Ann Curry in Chile. She had a Leica with what looked like a Tri-something--a big lens on the camera--bigger than the 50 asph. Maybe the nocti?

That is the first time I've ever seen a Leica on TV.
 
"Snow Falling On Cedars," which is an incredibly beautifully shot movie that I recommend anyone interested in photography see if you haven't already, has a couple of scenes in which Ethan Hawke and Sam Shepard shoot with what looks like a Leica III to me. One such scene is the Strawberry Festival.
 
In 'The Prisoner' (original series) episode 'Happy Returns'. When No6 arrives in London there is a scene of a tourist taking a photo of a girl using what appears to be a IIIf with an Elmar lens, however it looks to me that the lens is still collapsed when the shutter is pressed.
 
dexdog said:
No, it is definately a Barnack leica, but I don't know which flavor for certain, most likely a IIIc.
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Buchheim himself, the author of "Das Boot", shot with a Leica when he was on the U-96 as a propaganda photographer in World War 2. In "Uboat War" he mentions that at some point it got so encrusted with sea salt that one of the ship's mechanics had to CLA it.


I recall an episode of "'Allo 'Allo" where the German officers take a picture of the painting of "The fallen Madonna with the big boobies", with a leica with a shoe-mounted flash. Don't recall the exact model but it probably was a III or later.
 
Has there been a better image of a Leica in film since the "beach" scene........?

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......with the amazing Liv Ullman seen here with a late Leica M3/50 Cron combo in
Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece from 1966 "Persona"

Just watching this scene made me fall in love with the "M3" all over again.....a very unique M3 is my next project camera.

Tom
 
amateriat said:
Of course, the hottest actress who truly knows her way around a Leica is Jamie Lee Curtis. But I digress...

- Barrett
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actually, Alyssa Milano is a Leica shooter too, there's an interesting story with her and Chris Weeks... He was covering some event and was shooting with M9, still as a tester, when it was branded as P864, and she noticed him and approached, took a look at M9 and immediately spotted that that's not an M8... she knows her way around, and looks great too :)

here's the story:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisweeks/3908223268/
 
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All about Steve, a recent movie. The cameraman is shooting with a possibly M8 in a scene. But it is funny that as usual they show the viewfinder view of the camera like an SLR. and it show a large distance object pretty close :))
 
There's quite a bit of Leica in "Six Degrees", or SixDegreesOfSeperataion, first episode one of the main characters shoots street with M5
 
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