[Leica] Re: LTM?

[Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>]

I first encountered the term LTM several years ago here on the LUG in a
post from Marc James Small.

I adopted it because it is easy to type and cannot be confused with the so
call Pentax screw mount.

Ken Wilcox


At 5:51 +0000 3/8/0, a fine scholar, john wrote:

>I have noticed that many here refer to older Leica cameras and lenses as LTM
>(Leica thread Mount).  I have not come across this expression much in all my
>years of Leica use until quite recently . We always called them screw mounts
>when I was a callow youth back in the fifties.  I was curious so I checked a
>couple of my books to see what they call them. Denis Laney seems to refer to
>them as screw mounts as does my Leica Manual 15th Edition edited by Douglas O.
>Morgan, David Vestal, and William L Broecker. I also find my Accessory Guide
>from Hove Foto refers to screw mount items. I am wondering where this new
>expression comes from. My late father, bless his collectors heart, thought it
>was a collectors affectation, but this is a user group the use of this
>expression seems widespread here as well as among collectors. What is the
>etymology of this expression, and is it a more accurate description or is it
>just changing custom? Will I be considered old fashioned if I continue to say
>screw mount?
>Bosjohn (John Shick)


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