Leica sightings

This week's American Way (American Airlines in-flight magazine) has a piece on

actor Aaron Eckhart's use of a Leica (M6 with pre-ASPH Summilux 50). There are

two pictures of the camera but none taken with it :-(

 

The March 2008 Monocle magazine has an editorial claiming that film gives better

skintones than digital (p. 31) and an article on using film instead of digital

(p. 107) which is perhaps inevitably illustrated with pictures of Leicas (in

this case an MP with an M6-style rewind) among other cameras. There's also a

cameo Leica appearance in an ad.

I found this:

 

http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/5127/the-star-as-artist-aaron-eckhart-page4.html

Meg Ryan uses an M6 in "Addicted to Love". I figured she borrowed it from a still photographer on the set. In her hands, it looked like a prop. She appeared on another magazine cover peering through what looks like a IIIf, another prop.

 

Jennifer Connely used an M6 and 35mm Summicron in "Blood Diamond".

 

Nick Nolte used some kind of Leica and 35mm lens in the nightclub scene in "Under Fire". He used Nikon F's and F2's everywhere else in the film, but kept the Leica around his neck. He must have researched that role carefully; he played the PJ very convincingly.

 

Julia Roberts shot Jude Law with what looked like an M6 in "Closer".

As I noted in another post, if you want to see Leicas and other cameras in use between 1963-1965, check out "The Other Side Of The Mirror, Bob Dylan Live at the NewPort Folk Festival, 1963-1965". Many instances of Leicas, looks like M2s and 3s, plus early SLRs. It is a good film on its own, no matter how you feel about Dylan, but the cameras were a constant fasination for me.

Like birdwatching in the antarctic.

A classic would be "une partie de campagne" by Raymond Depardon on the 1974 presidential election in France quite a few Ms plenty Nikons F and always the same chap with a brand new Nikon F2!

Republican political consultant Mike Murphy had a Leica M6 at the Republican National Convention this month. Looked like an M6. He took

it out after participating in a discussion about changing media that was broadcast on CSPAN. I didn't see him take any shots with it.