[Leica] Never-Load and the M2 and Sal DiMarco, Jr

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 07:34 PM 12/13/2000 -0500, Sal DiMarco,Jr. wrote:
>I have used them in my M2s since they were introduced and have not had a
>failure.

Yet once again, Sal, you entirely miss the point.  This discussion was the
Never-Load Kit on the M3, not on the M2.  I will grudgingly acknowledge
that it has its place on the M2, though, again, it answers a question that
no one asked.

It is fascinating that Leica themselves felt the Never Load Kit to have
been a disaster.  They ended up insisting that their dealers take chunks of
these which, of course, never sold, as the word had gone out by then that
these guys just didn't work.  Speak with the folks at Leica in New Jersey
and speak with the people who ran camera stores back then.  Or, for that
matter, listen to the other professional photographers on this List who
tried, and discarded, these bloody things for the misbegotten pieces they
were.

Why not use what Oscar intended us to use?  It worked for the LTM cameras
to the IIIg and worked well on the M3.

Marc

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