Re: [Leica] Winogrand/blind shooting

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

Tom,
I'm not familiar with your winders.  I assume they are like a Leicavit for
M-series cameras.  I had a Leicavit on a IIIC and loved it.

Will your device work on an M3 and, if so how can one be obtained and what
is the cost?

Regards,
Bud Cook
- -----Original Message-----
From: TTAbrahams <TTAbrahams@aol.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Winogrand/blind shooting


>Erid, So far nobody has offered me any money for the Winder business and
there
>are some days when I would sell it cheap,then there are the other days when
I
>have been touch with users and feel on top of the world. Leica USA and
Leica
>Solms have several winders ( they always "borrow" them from me!).
> As for the doubling of price on a Leica made winder, all the collectors
would
>like that because it would have a Leica logo on it, the users would grumble
>because they would have to put black tape over the logo!
> The first batch of Rapidwinders ( 1987/88) had the word Rapidwinder
engraved
>on the front" hey, can I order one without the engraving" I changed the
>engraving to the bottom " Hey, can I have one without the engraving filled
in
>with white" Now I have the engraving done in the CNC machine that mills out
>the cases and it is unfilled, you really have to look for it. I have to
have
>it there because of Customs and Officials.
> As for working my butt off,making winders, as long as it does not affect
my
>coffee habit (Vancouver is 2nd only to Seattle for caffein wired
inhabitants)
>and my shooting I can produce them, but one day I will use that most feared
>phrase in British " Last Orders, please"
>Tom A
>