Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1994/10/18

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To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: begining user questions
From: Gordon Banks <geb@dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 13:08:06 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: gang@mtdcr.att.com, jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

On Thu, 13 Oct 1994, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:

> A IIIf with finder would probably be OK, and may be what I end up with;
> apparently the big concern there is the need to hand cut the long film
> leader tongue.
>

Seriously?  This takes about 10 seconds.  Why should that be a problem?
 
> The M series just isn't a "real Leica" to me - see the above about "I'm
> a crank". If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it with a screw
> mount body. (I also wear a mechanical watch and use a Curta
> "peppermill" calculator to balance my checkbook. Like I said, I'm a crank.) 
> 
> This also applies to the very practical suggestion of using a Canon 7,

Well, the Canon 7 isn't a *real* Canon.  :-)

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