Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison McClary wrote: > > I know Nikon used to cut a notch out of your film plane back so you could > identify which camera you were shooting with. If you had 3 bodies they > would cut the notch in 3 different places. This way you could tell which > body a shoot was made with, and if that camera had a problem it was easy to > find the problem body. > > I always thought this was a kinda cool thing as when shooting multiple > bodies it can get confusing which lens was on what body when a problem > happened. > Interesting, Harrison. That could explain a used, beater M4 I looked at in a store the other day. It had a series of notches cut into the side of the film plane opening. Three or four, as I recall. I wondered at the time if soemthing had been attached to replace the back, but it may have been for identification. Not a bad idea. Bill Welch