Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/31

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Subject: Re: Dating equipment
From: "Elliot M. Puritz, MD" <drpuritz@li.net>
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 18:24:13 +0000

Ben Holmes wrote:
> 
> >Are there lists available somewhere that allow one to date equipment?
> 
> I'm in the process of putting up a site containing serial number data for
> the M cameras and Leitz lenses. I've found four sources for the numbers and
> am working to compile it into a useful format. Most of the guides, while
> handy, make more work of this than seems practical. Give me a week and I'll
> post the URL.
> 
> Also, I'm ref'ing tables of processing times for as many different B&W films
> in every conceivable developer (except phenomenol <g>) that I can find data
> for. It's about time someone did this. I've run a search on every engine
> listed in Netscape and have NEVER found data compiled in this way. I'm open
> to suggestions from the peanut gallery for additional data that I could host
> on my site. The purpose is to provide a ready access "library" of
> photographic data, for folks who want it. I'm calling it "PhotoData
> Library", pretty unique, eh?
> 
> I would welcome your input. I'm sure this would be a worthwhile project, and
> would be useful to most any of you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ben W. Holmes
> Photographer
> Boulder, CO
> USA
> 
> visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/

Ben:  I'm just an amateur, but you seem to have undertaken a formidable 
task.  Thanks in advance for helping all of us with you projected sites.

Elliot