Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not know a great deal about it but I find my incorrect answers spur the very shy people who do know into nasty retorts which also contain the info we are after . Subtle, but it works :-) Black chrome is an extract of Black Forest cake. You know the bits that are left over after you burp, and say, "No thanks, I couldn't eat another bite." Leica collects these and, after running it all though a secret patent pending ISO 9000 process, smears it over the parts to be coated. The coating is very rough and needs to be smoothed out. Young German children line up at the Solms' factory to lick and lick until the finish is polished to a fine sheen. Then they pop the polished parts into the oven for half an hour at 150C. The children receive a modest recompense and free dental work. The reason that Leica cameras have climbed in price is that it is getting more and more difficult to find people that have leftovers from their Black Forest cake. This combined with soaring obesity and the propensity of some bakeries to use lard instead of butter, you can see that soon Leica may be forced to use synthetic Black Forest cake!! Naturally purists have complained long and loudly and I fully expect any pictures from these soon to be released cameras to be not much better than anything a Nikon with whipped cream could produce... John Collier > From: "G. Michael Paine" <mickeyp35@earthlink.net> > > My original Leicas were the black painted (enamel) ones. Now I have > an M6. Since this upgrade I have been faced with the term "black > chrome". Is the finish really chrome that is black, or has this term > just come into use to differentiate from the original chrome? > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html