Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/16

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Subject: [Leica]Global warming remark by Peter....
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sat Oct 16 10:08:25 2004

On 16 Oct 2004 at 9:03, Dan Post wrote:

> I wonder if you can start a fire with a 
> Leica and a flint?

Sure.. just dismount the lens, focus it to infinity, point it at the 
sun, and put something flammable at film plane distance.  Poof.  
Fire.

(Note:  I have no idea what you'd need the flint for... perhaps you 
could knap it into lens caps?)


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