Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/02

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Subject: Re: funny corners, the sequel...
From: Martin Tai <cg081@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 06:41:15 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Gerard Captijn wrote:

> >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.
> 
> Leica produced camera's for the German Luftwaffe (airforce) during wartime
> where they had cut a small notch in the film plane back. It did not change
> the course of the war however.
> 
> Gerard Captijn,
> Geneva, Switzerland.
> Email: captyng@vtx.ch
> Fax: +41 (22) 700 39 28
> 
    This practice of cutting a not in the film frame is used also
by  Minox  in their ultra miniature cameras. However the position and
shape of the cut out is used to mark the model intead of individual
body.

martin tai