Saw SPY GAME (Robert Redford/Brad Pitt) last night - one of the better executed spy-thriller genre films of late. Anyway, in one segment, Pitt's a CIA operative posing as a photojournalist in 1985 Beruit. He runs around wielding a couple of Leicas in midst of people taking pot shots at him and others. He also uses a Nikon for a scene or two, but it's the scenes of Pitt ducked-running across a burning street firing a motor-equiped Leica over his head that gets the Leica juices flowing!

Makes you want to quit your job and run around Kabul for a month! (Not really, but the movie's a good Leica sighting for the rest of us photojounalist wannabes...)

-- Eric Reid (eric_reid@lkshore.com), November 26, 2001

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Check out the Photographers Journal at the NY Times web site for current photojournalist assingments www.nytimes.com

-- Brooks (Bvonarx@home.com), November 26, 2001.

Saw the movie on Saturday. It was ok, if not spectacular as a film.

Nice to see Leica featured so prominently, but the noise of his Leicas made my old FM with MD-12 sound quiet ... actually, I think that's the sound they used.

-- Godfrey (ramarren@bayarea.net), November 26, 2001.

Godfrey,

You mean that was the sound of the camera? I thought it was supposed to be AK-47 fire...

-- Eric Reid (eric_reid@lkshore.com), November 26, 2001.

Godfrey,

The sound you heard was probably a Canon or Nikon. Most of the stuff you hear in movies is an overdub, the Foley guys add all the door slams and footsteps afterward and then the sound designers dress up the tracks with gunfire and cars starting, squealing away etc. The most overused effect is the Eagle/Hawk screech. I believe it began with "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", and now it's everywere - Cheesy, like a grad filter...

-- Dave Doyle (soilsouth@home.com), November 27, 2001.