Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] How radioactive are Leitz lenses?
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@primus.com.au>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:50:35 +1100
References: <B6820D0E.412C%howard.390@osu.edu> <007f01c07b37$b9d781a0$953d18d1@PACBELL.NET>
 
Tom Schofield wrote:

> Just don't carry the lens in your pants pocket if you desire children in the
> future.  Maybe that's why the original Leica M Classic bag had the lens
> pouches to the outside of the main compartment -- to keep the radioacitve
> lenses further from the wearer! Hmmm, wasn't Leica producing the radioactive
> lenses at about the time they added neckstrap lugs, so that you put the
> camera around the neck rather than in your pocket, so as not to reduce the
> pool of future leica owners?
>
> Tom

I believe it was intended as an early form of external birth control. Long
before the days of the pill

Regards, Horst Schmidt
In reply to: Message from Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> (Re: [Leica] How radioactive are Leitz lenses?)
Message from "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com> (Re: [Leica] How radioactive are Leitz lenses?)