Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:47:02 -0400 Subject: > Re: LTM definition > > At 08:58 PM 6/10/97 +0000, Jon Mitchell shrieked: > >WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE TERM "SCREW MOUNT" WHAT > KIND OF SICK, >PERVERTED, SAVAGE, TWISTED AND > DOWNRIGHT DERANGED POLITICALLY CORRECT >LOONY > CAME UP WITH "THREAD MOUNT"????? I LIKE TO > "SCREW" LENSES INTO >MY LEICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, that's the way it's meant to be! :-) > > Actually, 'thread-mount' is the original > English-language translation of the German > 'schraube', as in 'schraubeleica'. "Screw-mount" > is a much later intrusion. I don't have a dictionary on the shelf here, but I think "thread" means "Gewinde" and "screw" means "Schraube". The correct term for the thread (where you screw your lenses in) is in german IMHO "Gewinde-Anschlu=DF". But "Schraub-Anschlu=DF" (screw mount) is about equally common. The popular term for the camera itself is "Schraub-Leica" not "Gewinde-Leica". I (not beeing an expert in that field) think that LTM is the more exact term for the mount as far as the origin of the term goes. > Why adopt a new word, when a perfectly good older > one exists? I think in both cases we know what we are talking about, aren't we? best wishes Stefan - -- Stefan Kahlert Wissenschaftliche Abteilung Medizinische Poliklinik der Universitaet Bonn uzs13b@uni-bonn.de