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Subject: [Leica] Copy of ABLON template
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Thu Jun 7 18:09:25 2007
References: <C28E08E8.5AEDB%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Melts faster though.  ;-)


On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>
>>
>> Me?  I have used all four of these but I opted,
>> back in the longago, for d).  I always have a
>> Swiss Army Knife with me, as I have had since I
>> was fourteen, and just clip the film.  The first
>> time I did this, it took me fifteen or twenty
>> seconds but now takes me five seconds or so to
>> clip.  Open the base, clip the film, pull the
>> take-up spool, insert the film into the take-up
>> spool, insert the two, and close the base.  It
>> takes fifteen or twenty seconds and Bob's your
>> uncle.  If Grandma Leitz had not meant for it to
>> be done this way, we would not have that mystic
>> decal in our cameras.  Surely those gnomes of
>> Wetzlar must have known SOMETHING, or we'd not be using these  
>> cameras.
>>
>> snippet<
>> Marc
>>
> I also on my keychain for decades carry my SWISS ARMY KNIFE and the  
> one with
> the scissors which is also the one without the corkscrew. (how un  
> French!)
> So I'll give that a whirl.
> The scissors on the Swiss army knife is the tool I use 99.9 of the  
> time I
> almost never need a knife.
> Sometimes I use a screw driver.
> To eat ice scream.
> Goes slower that way.
>
>
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
>
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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