[Leica] 3 E discontinued

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Jim, Yes WATE for the 16-18-21 wide angle Tri Elmar. I've seen that acronym 
in general use. Oh how I would love to own that lens. If
anyone would like to give me one, I promise to call it anything that they 
wish.
Apparently someone thought that WATE was such a great acronym that they made 
up MATE for the original 28-35-50.
Mate in Australian is more or less an informal equivalent of comrade in 
Soviet bloc speak!

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jim Nichols
Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 12:33
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] 3 E discontinued

Hoppy,

I thought it was WATE, for Wide Angle Tri Elmar.  At least that is what I 
have seen previously.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] 3 E discontinued


> 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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