Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/23

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Subject: Re: Tripod adapter for M cameras?
From: "Joe B." <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 21:54:29 +0000
 
In article <v01520d00aee39dc02814@[192.0.2.1]>, Greg Mironchuk
<gregm@world.std.com> writes
>A news photographer... Long in the Tooth and Great of Girth, who lives in
>Saugus, Massachusetts, USA... is sometimes seen carrying M-3 Leicas upon
>which are mounted Nikon AH-3 tripod adaptors (a device designed to put a
>"center" tripod screw onto the bottom of an "offset screw" MD-12 motor
>drive, for FM/FE cameras).

Now that's an interesting idea. I can't recall for sure, but it sounds
rather like the tripod adapter I bought my daughter for her Nikon 301,
(2002 elsewhere I think) -it's another body that suffers from "end
socket syndrome". I must have a look.
- -- 
Joe B.