Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] US navy 90 f1/fuji film pushed
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

Mark Hammons writes:

[snip]
> The little info in Jim's book says it was used for electro-optical
> night photography, which confuses me because it is an M lens
> and pictures show one attached to M3 and M4 -- so what kind
> of electo-optical device was it ever used with??  Special - electro-
> optical M-camera maybe??? ;-)
[snip]

Well that phrase would cover its use with an image intensifier.

An image intensifier with an M-mount front and rear would certainly be 
possible, and if such a thing exists I WANT ONE NOW! :-)

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