Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cassettes
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 10:28:09 -0400

At 10:27 PM 5/22/98 -0700, Dennis Painter wrote:
>If its an M6 you need the old baseplate.

Not necessarily.  The Wetzlar M6's and the early Solms ones (to around
1990) have the cassette lugs, and you can still replace the current M6
baseplate with the M4-2 baseplate which has the lugs -- Leica sells a
number of new replacement M4-2 baseplates to us old-fashioned guys.

Marc


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