Re: [Leica] LTM?

["KPETERS" <KPETERS@huntel.net>]

It depends on who you say it around!!  (You might get slapped!!).  Kpeters
.  I've always used the term screw mount as well, but must say that "Thread
mount" is a much woodier sounding word (for those Monty Python fans out
there!)... k
- -----Original Message-----
From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:57 PM
Subject: [Leica] LTM?


>I have noticed that many here refer to older Leica cameras and lenses as
LTM
>(Leica thread Mount).  I have not come across this expression much in all
my
>years of Leica use until quite recently . We always called them screw
mounts
>when I was a callow youth back in the fifties.  I was curious so I checked
a
>couple of my books to see what they call them. Denis Laney seems to refer
to
>them as screw mounts as does my Leica Manual 15th Edition edited by Douglas
O.
>Morgan, David Vestal, and William L Broecker. I also find my Accessory
Guide
>from Hove Foto refers to screw mount items. I am wondering where this new
>expression comes from. My late father, bless his collectors heart, thought
it
>was a collectors affectation, but this is a user group the use of this
>expression seems widespread here as well as among collectors. What is the
>etymology of this expression, and is it a more accurate description or is
it
>just changing custom? Will I be considered old fashioned if I continue to
say
>screw mount?
>Bosjohn (John Shick)