[Leica] 3 E discontinued

[tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)]

And the 75-90-135 can be the TATE.

Tom


On Jun 10, 2007, at 4:59 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> An even worse development in another forum. Someone has coined the  
> acronym MATE for the Tri Elmar 28-35-50. That is just flagrant
> misuse of acronyming.
> The forum also has two claims that dealers have been told that  
> production is discontinued and another from, I think, a French forum,
> that the glass for the front element is no longer available.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> FSubject: Re: [Leica] 3 E discontinued
>
> 2007-06-09-16:06:00 Mark Rabiner:
>> Yes but he uses in in context in an article.
>> He and other article writers will write they start out with:
>>
>> The Tri Elmar "TE" is very delicious.
>> Some think the 90 APO has more flavor "9A".
>
> Yah, and were I possessed to write about Tri-Elmaren, I expect I'd  
> spell
> out the monicker;  but then I'm not the sort to ask, "how R U?" or
> "drinks 2nite?" or whatever is even more compressed than that and
> flies from cellphone to cellphone these days.
>
> I got a Treo so I can easily type out actual words in text messages,
> dammit!
>
> I found it interesting, though, that I hadn't even noticed the "3 E"
> abbreviation, because my mind was already familiar with it and  
> performed
> the substitution as it went in my eyeballs.
>
> "Nothing compares 2 U"
>   - Prince, as sung by that earnest Irish gal.
>
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