Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Perfidy & Perfidity
From: Dan C <leicaman@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:53:07 -0400

Sounds perfid to me!

dan c.

At 04:41 PM 13-08-03 -0700, Martin Howard wrote:
>
>Perfidy.  (adv) The fiddly nuisance of trying to get the sproket wheel 
>to correctly engage the film perforations, especially on an LTM camera.
>
>Ex.: "Damn, loading this IIIc with mittens during the Swedish winter is 
>perfidy awful!"
>
>
>Perfidity. (a) The quality of a perfidy task.
>
>Ex.: "I loved that II, but it's perfidity loading drove me crazy."
>
>
>M.
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