Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] Get Shorty, was Photo Books and a New PAW
From: pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)
Date: Wed Jan 5 19:35:47 2005
 
So how does a 16.3 cm tall person handle a Leica?

--Peter, 190.5 cm

At 12:32 PM 1/5/05 -0800, Dick Taylor wrote:
>Unless you are truly pulling my leg (that is to say," kidding me," or
>maybe I should say having a jest at my expense), this is a wonderful
>example of the kind of problem that doomed the NASA Mars mission a
>few years ago.  That was English-Metric unit confusion, this is
>punctuation differences, but the effect is the same.
>
>Indeed 6'5" (American) = 6 feet 5 inches or about 195 cm; 6,5"
>European)  = 6 and one-half inches  or about 16.3 cm.
Replies: Reply from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Get Shorty, was Photo Books and a New PAW)