Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Most of the nomenclature I know but....
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:11:57 -0500

Aaaah! Some new 'faces'- Yes, LTM can mean Leica Time Machine, because they
carry you back to the halcyon days when men were men, women were women, and
35 mm cameras were Leicas.
It means Leica Thread Mount, and you may hear the referred to as SM for
Screw Mount, or as our Asian LUGgers are wont to call them, Barnack Cameras
after the gent who actually 'designed and built' the thing for Ernst Leitz.
You will hear the terms RF and VF for rangefinder and viefinder,
respectively, and which are usually two different eye 'oles!
You will often hear the phrase- "(^*%^$*&^%$)*" when a user is actually
trying to load film into one!
Dan ( Please take notes- there WILL be a quiz at the end of the class!)
dwpost@msn.com