Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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). - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html