Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Excess Diaphragm Markings
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:27:15 -0400

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So that you can't mount it upside down?<br>
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At 12:25 PM 5/27/99 -0400, you wrote: <br>
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<font face=3D"Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=3D2><blockquote type=3Dcite cite>I=
 am
just curious.=A0 My f4/135 (E39), SN 3,465,680, has the diaphragm
engravings and setting mark on both the top and bottom of the lens.=A0 Can
any of the technically or historically inclined tell me why this lens has
two sets of markings?=A0 Thanks in advance.<br>
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<font size=3D3>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
</font><font face=3D"Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=3D2>Buzz
Hausner</font><font size=3D3> <br>
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<div>Chandos Michael Brown</div>
<div>Assoc. Prof. Hist and American Studies</div>
<div>College of William and Mary</div>
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<a href=3D"http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/</a>
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