Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert, I believe what you saw was a base plate for a Leica MD. The MD camera was designed for laboratory/technical use. The block with slot allowed a a recording strip to be slipped into the camera for recording information about what was being photographed. You don't happen to recall where you saw it and how much they wanted for it do you? I have an MD with standard baseplate and would like to get the recording base plate. Best, Don - --- delia <louzan@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > A few days ago I was in NYC and I saw an interesting > Leica item that maybe someone can identify. > It was a chrome M base-plate w/basket. On the > outside there was the tripod bushing and the > base-plate lock just like in an ordinary M > base-plate -- BUT towards the middle of it there was > a rectangle about 5H * 10W * 15L mm. In its center > there was a small slot the size and shape of a small > fingernail. What on earth is this thing for? > > Regards, > Robert > <HR> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>A few days ago I was in NYC and I saw an interesting Leica item that maybe someone can identify.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It was a chrome M base-plate w/basket. On the outside there was the tripod bushing and the base-plate lock just like in an ordinary M base-plate -- BUT towards the middle of it there was a rectangle about 5H * 10W * 15L mm. In its center there was a small slot the size and shape of a small fingernail. What on earth is this thing for?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Robert</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com