Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] what is black chrome
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:17:57 -0500
References: <B875D95F.18E96%jbcollier@powersurfr.com>

I always thought black chrome was what was left over when they made white
chocolate!

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] what is black chrome


> 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?
> >
>
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