Michael C
Reged: 25/10/2004
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Loc: near Bath
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Meant to post this earlier this week. Watching David Suchet on the TV tracing his ancestors, there were a few minutes showing him in Paris, shooting the Eiffel Tower, etc with what looked like a Leica thread-mount. Anyone else spot this? (It might still be available on BBC's iPlayer, for those interested.)
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john60wales
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Reged: 29/12/2006
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Loc: South Wales
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I can't comment on the program you saw [as I didn't see it] but I do remember David Suchet in a documentry about Poirot... the behind the scenes footage showed him 'shooting' with a Nikon. What model... I couldn't say... but it was a Nikon.... & I think a digital... as he kept looking at the back of the camera after taking the shots..
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Malcolm_Stewart
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Yes, I saw the programme and thought "some sort of Leica". Why not, I expect he can afford one.
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bagpuss
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Thanks to a bit of research I can announce it was a Leica M3.
David's camera; named as being from 1954, much older than his grandfather's camera.
Leica M3 - first introduced in 1954.
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Michael C
Reged: 25/10/2004
Posts: 119
Loc: near Bath
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Thanks, bagpuss, good research! Your PhD is in the post. 
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TimF
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Mr Suchet is also a Nikon user (or certainly was recently) as he was featured in Grays' "Nikon Owner" magazine a couple of years back.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print. - Garry Winogrand
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parisian
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Reged: 10/02/2002
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Certainly a Nikon man Tim (obviously a true gentleman of discernment) and to my memory of the programme the Leica he used belonged to his grandfather - one of the original paparazzi - his photographic inspiration.
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