Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/20

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Subject: Re: DR 50
From: "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 19:19:47 -0700

> From: Alastair Firkin
> On the later M6's, the shroud has cut outs
> into its outside edges corresponding to the four corners of the film
> gate.
> 
I've lost track of the number of people who have asked me what the little
lens hood cutouts are for. But I never tire of watching their expressions
when I explain to them that, with a Leica camera, you can shoot pictures so
fast that the lens needs air-cooling vents!

Gary