Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] strange SLmot!
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:59:01 +0100

Hey Dan,

Is this a black enamel or black chrome?

At 10:07 16/12/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Thib et Lucien-
>My SL-Mot (Black) is serial number1295122 and Sherry dated it from 1970 when
>she CLA'd it this Summer. It has the metal lens release tab, not the red
>plastic one, and there is no cut off switch for the meter.
>It may be hard to pin down the exact numbers- Leica had just barely gotten
>into the SLR business, and I think there may be a lot of unused numbers, or
>re-cycled ones perhaps, that just don't show up in the books. I wonder if
>Leica has any records of these years?
>Dan
>dwpost@msn.com
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