Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex Brattell <alex@zetetic.co.uk> on 09/06/98 04:21:50 AM Please respond to leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us There's a lovely story that the man who invented the Paterson spools got the idea for them when, on holiday in South Africa, he watched a snake devouring a rodent. Lateral thinking or what?! Alex Back in the 50s when I was getting started in photography I had an Ansco tank that loaded just like Paterson reels do. Glen Robinson