ick. I hate it when an author, or a film editor, or whatever can't get
simple facts straight....
Take the best all-around Pentax movie for example: "Femme Fatale" Antonio
Bandaras takes a snap with his Pentax 645, runs over to his laptop, plugs
the camera in! and prints a digital print on his mini-printer! He also uses
a PZ-1 of course but then ruins the whole thing by using a Canon Rebel of
some sort. And of course the film has those three all-important words:
"Rebecca Romijn Stamos"
Christian Skofteland
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----- Original Message -----
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Best photography novel?
> Well, when I first moved in with my roomate back in October, she thought I
> might enjoy a book of hers by Douglas Kennedy, "The Big Picture". It's
some
> sort of mystery suspense thingie about a stockbroker who gives it all up
to
> pursure his first love: photography.
>
> Unfortunately, I went right to the part where he describes his equipment
> ("valued at over $45,000"). First, he says he has several "rare museum
> pieces", including "a Pentax Spotmatic". Okay, I know some of them (like
> the motor drive version) are pretty rare, but "museum pieces"? I read
on...
>
> He then says that he has, among other cameras, "a new Leica M9" (it must
be
> very new, since as you all know, Leica is only up to M7 <vbg>), with a
> "$5,000 Leica 300 [sic] Summicaron [sic] lens. Now, I don't know much
about
> Leicas or their lenses, but (a) you wouldn't use a 300mm lens on a
> rangefinder (which an M series would be), and (b) he spelled "Summicron"
> wrong, and (c), I don't even know if Leica makes an f2.0 300mm lens for
it's
> R series, but I bet it'd be worth more than $5000.
>
> Whatever, since they screwed up so bad in just a few paragraphs (he
> obviously didn't do his research, which is unforgivable if the damned book
> is supposed to be ~about~ a photographer), I couldn't read it.
>
> But, my roomate, who's fairly well-read (moreso than me - an admittedly
low
> standard <g>), said it was a good yarn. If you can get past the errors,
you
> might enjoy it. I, however, wasn't about to give the author the
> satisfaction. <vbg>
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
> "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist
> fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
>
