Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] More Viewfinders
From: stanley e yoder <syoder@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:58:52 -0500

- --On Monday, March 12, 2001 12:01 AM -0800 Leica Users digest 
<owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

>> If your IIIf has a hotshoe I would auction it off and laugh all the way
>> to the bank!

>> Joseph
>
>
> Joseph,
>
> With all the current flap 'bout auctioning and laughing all the way to the
> bank, that was the LAST thing I'd thought I'd do with my IIIF and its
> little hot shoe!   ;)
>
> Guy

Guy,
I think what Joseph was getting at was that LTM Leicas have *cold* shoes, 
not hot shoes ("hot" = flash contact built in.) The first Leica hot shoe 
was in the M5.

Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh