Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/19

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Subject: [Leica] CE
From: Ian Stanley <ian@mos.com.np>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:38 +0500

At 09:40 PM 98-05-17 -0700, you wrote:
>	The "CE" has something to do with compliance with EU standards for
>electric shock resistance; you can run around in your mod a'go-go stretch
>elastic pants, pick up your M6, and be relatively assured the static
>discharge won't fry the metering circuit. There's some sort of insert to
>the instruction manual that explains this. It specifically cautions,
>though, against zapping any electrical contacts, like those for the winder,
>and advises against cleaning the contacts with one of those micro-fibre
>optics cloths.
>
>Chuck Albertson
>Seattle, Wash.
>
Greetings all,

	I asked Leica - Solms what the "CE" on the base plate of my new M6HM stood
for and their answer is as follows:

>CE is a product seal and stands for "Conformitee Europeene", i.e. that
this product is manufactured according the standards set by the "European
Community".
>
Ian Stanley

Kathmandu, Nepal