Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film register problems for everyone?!
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:00:35 -0600

Well take an old metal stamping LTM camera and give it a good squeeze. 
The mount register is now off. The die cast chassis solved this common 
problem.

John Collier

On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 09:47 AM, dante@umich.edu wrote:

> Leitz perceived
> this to be such a problem in the screwmount era that it advertised that 
> they
> were made of metal stampings to improve precision and stability. Then 
> they
> started die-casting and the party line became that die-casting was 
> better
> (in reality, die-casting allows smaller tolerances but apparently does
> nothing to promote stability).

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