Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/18
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At 10:23 AM -0400 9/18/03, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/18/03 1:43:37 AM, Phong writes:
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><< Try these, if you can't navigate around. [He signed
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>his name Gregoire, not Greg]
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>http://users.skynet.be/fa420324/pages/overview.htm
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>http://users.skynet.be/fa420324/pages/flapback.htm
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>http://users.skynet.be/fa420324/pages/botpart.htm
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>http://users.skynet.be/fa420324/pages/internalbotpart.htm
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>http://users.skynet.be/fa420324/pages/menu.htm
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> >>
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>Gregoire has a nice conceptual idea for an M back/baseplate for the Leica M.
>Don't knock it. It's better than anything Leica has done, or at least
>publicised. As far as the web site goes, using Explorer 5 on my Mac,
>I was unable to
>advance between succesive pages and had to sequentially load the URLs given by
>Phong. The small type was also hard to read., particularly in the option chart
>on the last page. It would be better to redo the type in a simple black
>textface if the site is revised.
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>If made one of these, I would probably buy it. Hear that Leica? Why not
>simply do a web survey of Leica owners and test the strength of the potential
>market?
>
>Larry Z
Since what Grégoire has proposed is not workable with today's
technology unless the sensor size is about 10x15mm, saying that it's
better than 'anything Leica has done' is downright silly.
That said, what Grégoire has shown looks very nice, and if it could
be done, would be very attractive.
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