Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] plastic or metal tank
From: "Glen M. Robinson" <gmrobinson@imation.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 06:45:40 -0500

Alex Brattell <alex@zetetic.co.uk> on 09/06/98 04:21:50 AM

Please respond to leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

There's a lovely story that the man who invented the Paterson spools got
the
idea for them when, on holiday in South Africa, he watched a snake
devouring
a rodent. Lateral thinking or what?!

Alex


Back in the 50s when I was getting started in photography I had an Ansco
tank that loaded just like Paterson reels do.

Glen Robinson