Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:20 PM 12/13/1999 -0500, Marc Small James wrote: > Mrc Here we go again! There is an "a" in Marc. The family and the man both opted for Marc or Marc, but NOT without the "a"! Jem :-) jem.kime@cwcom.net FAX: +44 161 286 8575 stuj a tbi fo nuf! - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] Sent: 13 December 1999 22:25 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] King Concepts, Hewes, What the Hey! At 12:45 PM 12/13/1999 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Who is King and what is his Concept?! This is the US brand name for Hewes reels, a wonderful British product which are the Clearly Superior reel. Heavy metal. You can bounce them on the floor, and they never break or bend. It is an annoying reality that camera-store clerks will generally NOT sell these reels even when their store stocks them, as they cost substantially more than those thin-metal horror-reels. So, you go into the store, gripe that you're having problems loading regular reels, and the clerks are very nice and sympathetic but fail to point out the King Concepts/Hewes reels on the shelf, for fear you'll be offended by paying $15 for a reel. Around a decade back, I converted to Hewes reels and Kindermann tanks. Happiness resulted. (Though, TRUE happiness is a two-step process: pay your attorney lots of money and sue the jerks, but that is happiness of a different and clearly superior order.) Mrc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!