Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/02

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Subject: [Leica] Totally OT question about dentists
From: Thinkofcole at aol.com (Thinkofcole@aol.com)
Date: Mon Aug 2 07:32:59 2004
 
Leica made a very early effort to attract --  among others -- dentists and 
eye doctors... The 1935 edition of the "Leica  Manual" by Morgan & Lester, 
has 
an entire chapter by a dentist [with  close-up photos of teeth] and a 
separate 
chapter on the Leica as an opthalmic  camera [with close-ups of the eye by 
Dr. 
Ramon Castroviejo, a prominent eye  doctor.]
    The 1951 Edition continues the effort with a  lengthy chapter by an M.D. 
on medical photography. I believe that this  trend had much to do with 
Leica's 
serious effort to promote close-up photography  and its extensive production 
of all sorts of devices for this kind of work. 
   Later editions of the Leica Manual do not appear at first  glance to take 
up medicine as a separate topic -- bob  cole