Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica stood the Porsche test
From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:18:53 +0100

Dominique,

"Dikke nek" is "gros cou" or bloated ego ;-)

Could you lend me a Porsche and a metal chassis/plastic plate N**** for
that trial ?

Alan

Dominique PELLISSIER wrote:
> 
> At 14:29 22/02/99 +0100, Pascal wrote
> :
> >On 22-02-1999 14:01 Alan Ball wrote:
> >
> >>I saw the pic and read the comments. This is a little over the top I
> would say. I bet that any metal chassis camera can be treated that way,as
> long as you make sure this is done very slowly and without any friction.
> The vertical stress involved is not as impressive as it may
> seem.
> >
> >My feeling exactly, Alan.
> >I found the whole article rather "dikke nek" as they would say in
> >Brussels :-)
> >
> >Pascal
> >NO ARCHIVE
> >
> #############
> The top plate of the R8 is made with zinc, isn't ?
> I wonder how the "plastic" top plate of a N***N F(or N)90 which has a metal
> chassis could resist ?
> BTW what is the meaning of "dikke nek" ? Je ne "kote" pas à Bruxelles, une
> fois ;-).
> 
> Dominique