Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Zeiss Ikon also used the designation Thread Mound - for example the Icarex TM was a thread mount camera while the BM had a - yes, you guessed it - bayonet mount. :-) Douglas Marc James Small wrote: > At 01:02 AM 1/23/2009, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >When I found this out I felt like such a cool person!!!! > >As everyone else like on the shutterbug uses SM > >Screw mount. > >But the in people when they really want to be cool and have nobody > have a > >clue what they're talking about except the real cool insiders use LTM. > > Thank you, Friend Mark. That is precisely why I developed the > initialism twenty years or so ago. "Thread-Mount" does sound cooler > than "screw mount", which, if the truth be told, is vaguely > questionable in this PC world. (I happen to own a teen-age male > Sulcata tortoise who would like nothing better than to "screw mount" > our rather younger female Sulcata. In time, in time, Franklin! In > the meantime, he can reduce his hormones while cleaning the threads on > my LTM lenses and cameras ... ) > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >