Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Puzzling M base-plate
From: Bill Grimwood <bgrim@FOO.GARPLY.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:13:41 -0500

This baseplate was used on the MD and similar cameras to put a plastic
strip into the film plane to record data on.  I do not know the Leica
article number.


Bill Grimwood



At 02:11 PM 5/14/99 -0000, you wrote: 

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<excerpt>A few days ago I was in NYC and I saw an interesting Leica item
that maybe someone can identify.

It was a chrome M base-plate w/basket.  On the outside there was the
tripod bushing and the base-plate lock just like in an ordinary M
base-plate -- BUT towards the middle of it there was a rectangle about 5H
* 10W * 15L mm.  In its center there was a small slot the size and shape
of a small fingernail.  What on earth is this thing for?

  

Regards,

Robert


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