Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] leica on wikipedia
From: jdos2 at mindspring.com (Jeff Sumner)
Date: Wed Sep 14 19:47:07 2005

I've started work (collecting sources) for the Daguerreotype page.

Love it. Collective knowledge is an awesome thing, and this works.

Next time you are on, explore the table of the elements. Incredible work.

JD


On 9/14/05 8:46 PM, "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com> escrivou:

> www.wikipedia.org "The Free Encyclopedia!" had a fairly comprehensive
> leica article.  i added some photos of some of my cameras as illustrations
> (all of the white-background images) of the various models and probably
> digressed too far into the wacky world of visoflex,
> but some of my babies are now on the big screen! the IIIf, the Black-Paint
> MP 0.85, the M3, R4 and SL2 MOT and Viso II. they may not be pristine, nor
> 100% original, nor particularly noteworthy, but useful, i think to the
> article.
> 
> i'll eventually go back into it and add some book references.
> 
> i'm not any sort of definite authority but it was fun adding to the
> wikipedia.  i was motivated because the "Leica I" photo which was 
> originally
> there and the "Modern Leica M series" in some sort of drawer made the
> Leica look moth-eaten and just didn't do justice to the marque.
> 
> wikipedia is rather easy to contribute to, and you all have so much
> knowledge...  put in your corrections and contributions!
> 
> -rei



Replies: Reply from chandos at cox.net (Chandos Michael Brown) ([Leica] Upsizing)
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