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JoeFriday
10-02-2006, 20:37
I don't actually read those teenage tabloids, but I was in the supermarket today and glanced at them while I was in the checkout line.. has anyone seen the latest issue of Seventeen?

low and behold, there's a Barnack Leica front and center used as a prop for some 'hottie' dude to hold

http://a820.g.akamai.net/f/820/822/1d/i.ivillage.com/17/app/hp/rightnav/hpright_magcover.gif
tomtodeath
10-02-2006, 20:44
Lol!!!!!!!!!!
dadsm3
10-02-2006, 21:22
Admit it's a self portrait, Brett.....
ghost
10-02-2006, 22:02
phooey, this does nothing to support my "babe magnet theory".
RML
10-03-2006, 01:18
<i>Seventeen</i> magazine is a porn magazine here in Holland. Don't know what you kids read over the pond. I'd hesitate letting my daughter read such filth. :)
Pherdinand
10-03-2006, 02:01
yeah, a camera porn magazine, apparently. Remy.
VinceC
10-03-2006, 02:31
In the United States it's a magazine for girls who aspire to be as cool at 17-year-olds, so I assume it's geared toward the 12-16 set and so is fairly tame.

Photographers who take pictures for those kinds of magazines are people too (and employed!) so probably he/she was having fun with one of the old cameras in his/her collection.

More seriously, this week's US edition of the Economist has an article on the Leica M8 -- a business story -- that includes a photo of Henri Cartier Bresson squinting through an M.
Skinny McGee
10-03-2006, 03:10
Joe Friday said "Hottie Dude"!
JoeFriday
10-03-2006, 08:40
what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it, as if he's saying "you want me to put this thing up to my face?"

but sadly, I think the focus (no pun intended) was on him, rather than the camera
ywenz
10-03-2006, 08:44
kids know that retro is cool
dll927
10-03-2006, 08:48
At least for what I can see, there is nothing to indicate that he IS holding it!! Probably a mug shot of some heartthrob that 17-year-olds would collapse in ecstacy over, with the camera superimposed. But from the looks of things, at least they do have good taste in cameras.
Jonathan_100
10-03-2006, 09:43
Great. Since it's on the cover, I'll have to get one for my daughter.
ClaremontPhoto
10-03-2006, 10:05
Great. Since it's on the cover, I'll have to get one for my daughter.

Will she appreciate an old camera?
JoeFriday
10-03-2006, 10:18
get her a Zorki.. she won't know the difference
FrankS
10-03-2006, 10:24
That's kind of like a cubic zirconia? (just a joke!)
jano
10-03-2006, 10:28
More seriously, this week's US edition of the Economist has an article on the Leica M8 -- a business story -- that includes a photo of Henri Cartier Bresson squinting through an M.

I saw that, too, wanted to point it out, but got dumped at the end of my todo list :)
VinceC
10-03-2006, 11:13
>>I saw that, too<<

Some of us read the Economist, others read Seventeen. I appreciate the diversity of interests here on RFF.
goo0h
10-03-2006, 11:14
what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it, as if he's saying "you want me to put this thing up to my face?"
He hasn't yet perfected that shoot-from-the-hip approach....
Gabriel M.A.
10-03-2006, 11:23
what cracks me up about that photo is the way the guy is holding it
But you know that you don't need to bring it up to your eye, if you're shooting from the hip. I wonder if that's what the photographer had in mind, if you know what I mean...

I wonder if he said "you put what into this? Aren't you supposed to clean film off?!?"
rogue_designer
10-03-2006, 11:35
I'm curious to know if it came from the personal collection of the photographer who did the shoot. :D
VinceC
10-03-2006, 11:45
Perhaps the young man in the picture is trying to find the LCD. He's conceivably young enough that he never held a film camera before.