Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 TTL X 2
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:16:16 -0600

You are completely right Guy but there is a quicker way to do the
calculations.

72 ~ 7+2 = 9 ~ nine ~ nein ~ no ~ nada ~ nothing: i.e. black

85 ~ 8+5 = 13 ~ bad luck ~ if you invested in silver when prices were high
in 72 (get it....72) you would have had bad luck ~ silver!!

JBC

> From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
> 
>> I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a 0.72
>> and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why?
>> 
>> 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85
>> 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Terry Sham
> 
> 
> terry,
> 
> i recommend the black .72/silver .85 combo for reasons that can be
> demonstrated both alphabetically and numerically:
> 
> the word 'black' is made up of 5 letters, whereas 'silver' comprises 6
> letters. 7 minus 2 (from .72, get it?), makes 5, suggesting that the .72 m6
> should be black. now, 8 plus 5 makes 13. subtract 7 (from .72, get it?) and
> you have 6; evidently, the .85 m6 should be silver.
> 
> thanks to this brief yet elegant equation, you can select those m bodies
> that will aid you in maintaining the state of alphabetico-numerical harmony
> necessary for effective picture-making. for this reason, the above combo is
> the sound choice.
> 
> guy