View Full Version : David Beckham using an M8
petebown
07-23-2007, 15:53
In the UK, the ITV network are currently running a trailer to promote a TV programme about David Beckham (the UK soccer player) and his move to Los Angles.
Very briefly, during this trailer, David Beckham is shown taking a portrait photo of somebody with a Leica M8. You'll need to freeze frame the trailer to see it!!!
Can anyone work out what the lens on the camera is?
I think its either a 1950s Leica 50mm or a Voigtlander... It's silver in colour.
I'm not sure whether the camera is his or not. However, if it is his, is isn't as daft as the press make him out to be!!!
Silva Lining
07-23-2007, 16:02
I met David Beckham once. He's a really nice friendly guy, who doesn't take himself too seriously. On camera and in front of one he has a professional persona to maintain. As does his missus.
People think he's daft, but thats just part of the public persona, its disarming. He's a pretty sharp guy in my estimation.
endustry
07-23-2007, 16:07
Hopefully he's better at using a Leica than his wife is.
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Dk8a
dazedgonebye
07-23-2007, 18:58
Hopefully he's better at using a Leica than his wife is.
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Dk8a
She looks like a natural...how many of us have never shot with the lens cap on?
Don't forget the D2 has no 'optical' finder' the glass windw is merely cosmetic. In other words it works the same as a reflex even if it ain't. So maybe she was just taking the P....
Brian.
I've seen the ad and it's been bugging me too. There is a camera I can't identify. Not sure if it's the one you mean and not even sure it's beckham using it. Gonna have to catch it on vid and use slo'mo I think.
Its on ITV tonight so i'm guessing the ads must be on all the time at the moment.
petebown
07-24-2007, 17:53
I'll try to catch an image on it and put it on here. Can't promise anything... It depends when and if they show it again.
>> She looks like a natural
The British tabloid newspapers never seem to end having fun speculating that her prime assests AREN'T natural .... :-) :rolleyes:
TS ISAAC
07-24-2007, 18:25
Seems photos of Beckham are hard to find with his M8.
Fortunately, a photographer had his camera at the ready and managed this rare photo prior to Beckham's change of venue to Los Angeles.
After close investigation, we can clearly see him with a early prototype Thumbs Up model 1, and he seems quite pleased. No doubt he is heading straight for his camera bag to give it a go on his M8.
http://u1.ipernity.com/u/2/47/27/403271.dbebc5ef1.l.jpg
John Robertson
07-24-2007, 18:29
I'm surprised he can find the shutter button!!
BigSteveG
07-24-2007, 19:04
Beckham's arrival here in LA is great for the game of soccer. I'm just sick of the media.
dazedgonebye
07-24-2007, 19:26
Seems photos of Beckham are hard to find with his M8.
Fortunately, a photographer had his camera at the ready and managed this rare photo prior to Beckham's change of venue to Los Angeles.
After close investigation, we can clearly see him with a early prototype Thumbs Up model 1, and he seems quite pleased. No doubt he is heading straight for his camera bag to give it a go on his M8.
http://u1.ipernity.com/u/2/47/27/403271.dbebc5ef1.l.jpg
Yet another endorsement deal!
Dralowid
07-25-2007, 06:58
He seems to be using something like a 35mm Summaron with specs.
That he is using a 35mm lens with specs on a camera which has the appropriate frame proves a point...if a point needs proving.
Nice lens, stuff the celeb.
Michael
Beckham's arrival here in LA is great for the game of soccer. I'm just sick of the media.
Without the media coverage, how would it be good for the game of soccer? Would soccer's goodness simply permeate its way to popularity? Would Galaxy's exhibition game be seen by hundreds of thousands if it wasn't for ESPN's coverage?
CVBR:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/756/soccertl3.jpg
flashfirenze
07-25-2007, 13:46
In the US, the country where Mr. Beckham currently plays, it is called soccer. In the UK, football.
In Italy, they call it calcio
potato, potahto
CVBR: Yeah but we was talking about Beckham playing soccer for the LA Galaxy. Soccer it shall be.
On a separate note. Chicago's MLS team just built a new soccer field. I might be tempted to check out a game just to see what the hoopla is all about..
It can only be called football if they serve fish n' chips wrapped in newspaper at the arena. Oh that and if the NFL didn't exist in the US.
flashfirenze
07-25-2007, 14:15
What's with your declarations of rules for how millions of people must talk?
Are you prime minister of ball-busting?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/entertainment_enl_1185186778/img/1.jpg
WOW look at Will's suit! pimp!
I too wonder why Beckham went to LA to play for a team that is by all accounts comparable to an English team in League 1, the third tier. Surely it couldn't be for the £125 million he'll get over the next two years? The offer from Galaxy came after he was dropped by England. Now he's reinstated, he may regret the move. But maybe not much, £125M will cushion the blow.
But I don't understand why Galaxy have paid this much for Beckham and no-one else? He's just one out of eleven, and it's no good making inch perfect crosses and 80' passes if there's no-one to get on the end of them. Beckham works hard, but he can't tackle, can't use his head or his left foot much. Good at what he does though, but he still needs another ten good pro's to get a result. He's played at Man U and Real Madrid surrounded by some of the best players in the world. This may be quite an experience in LA.
Whens the rugby world cup kick off? England, despite being reigning world champions will finish nowhere, I fear.
dingadingdang
07-25-2007, 15:52
Because he'll bring huge amounts of revenue to the club in sponsorship etc
She looks like a natural...how many of us have never shot with the lens cap on?
Hehe! I did and I do! As late as yesterday - twice!:D :bang:
Yeah. Who cares about Beckham? Many of my american colleagues thinks that he's the most popular/greatest footballer in the world. Yeah, many people know him, but most people who know him hate him.
And greatest footballer in the world??? There're lots of people who can shoot freekicks and cross the ball like he does, they just don't have the media in england to make them popular. He's just a (slightly) above average player.
Gabriel M.A.
07-26-2007, 05:27
:confused: Everyone in LA knows:
Football is:
http://z.about.com/d/esl/1/0/S/2/football.gif
I don't think people in Louisiana would appreciate that assertion. I thought that was a guy with a helmet, running on a field, about to catch an American football. I guess that means I digress. But to each their own focus.
I don't doubt his magnificant soccer skills but this thread reminds me why our household is so cool to the mania of college sports here in the USA: we'll start to watch it when universities pay talented science, mathematics and English professors as well as they do their football coaches!
(I know David is a pro and not in college soccer but my point is still very relevent and valid.)
-g
Broadly speaking, apart from Wales and perhaps parts of France (not sure), rugby union has traditionally been the sport of the middle classes whereas football has been the sport of the working classes. NB for some northern English industrial mining/mill towns and villages rugby league has been the autumn/winter sport of the working class. Simply put though, the middle class called football "soccer" and so when it's referred to as "soccer" even now the (culturally) working class feel it somehow mistaken, even pejorative.
For the xenophobic and/or ignorant it fits just nice doesn't it; Americans don't know what football is so let them call it whatever they like because it's never going to be the real thing. But for me it's "football" and as Pele said "the beautiful game" and I really don't mind what anyone else calls it.
As for Beckham... well he was a good, hard working player for my team and no more than that but the best English midfield player of the past 20 years - ask anyone from Zidane to the scousers - is Paul Scholes (http://www.tshirtsunited.com/catalogue/design.php?category_code=players&design_code=paulscholesptg). He was never gonna be GQ/Hello/Vanity Fair magazine front cover material and thank god for that.
In England, club football will always be more important than country. All that national flag waving crap just isn't for me and I know I'm not alone in thinking that.
ibcrewin
07-26-2007, 07:11
American Football and Rugby are two different sports. Soccer (yes soccer) and International Football are the same as Futbol in Central and South America. Avocados are Alligator Pears.
I know they're different sports but I know nothing of NFL or the skills involved, and I'm not a fan of rugby. I was merely trying to suggest why most from these Isles don't like the word "soccer". I spent 3 years in Japan calling it "sakkaa" but I regarded that as simple translation and it didn't do me any harm.
Anyway, how about a poll along the lines of...
a. I'd luv it if Becks joined RFF
b. You wouldn't see me for dust if Becks joined RFF
c. I don't care I've got to get this report finished
I'd vote "c."
like2fiddle
07-26-2007, 07:54
I've never seen Beckham play, but we (my family) are soccer, football, futbol (call it whatever you want to call it) fans, even way up here in Vermont. I prefer to take the more long-term view regarding Beckham coming to the US to play. Any publicity involving the sport will generate interest and attention. The more press the game gets, the more opportunity it will have to grow. In my very little corner of the world we've seen interest in, I'll call it soccer, grow tremendously in the last decade or two. The local high school is traditionally known as a "football (American) school", I played when I was in school thirty years ago. There was no soccer at this school, in fact only a handfull of schools offered soccer within the state. About ten years ago this high school began a soccer program which started as a coed junior varsity sport. Since then, the sport has flourished, to the point that more kids try-out for soccer than football and the girls (they have their own team as of a few years back) has even competed for the state championship. The summer soccer league that all of my kids (three high-schoolers) play in has grown in numbers of teams forming each year that it has existed, and even more impressive is the growth in the number of adult teams fielded each year. I've had the time of my life the last couple of years lacing up the boots and running around out there.
The point I want to make is that "the beautiful game" is growing in the US, in spite of the popularity of the NFL. It's a big country in a very big world, there's room for many sports to thrive. Every time a talk radio host, television commentator, or newspaper writer mentions soccer/futbol/international football, it puts it in front of more people who otherwise wouldn't take the time to learn about the game. Many watched Pele play with awe; that may not be the case with Beckham, but his very presence will hopefully give the game a little more attention and enable it to grow just a little more popular in the US.
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