Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] King Concepts, Hewes, What the Hey!
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:40:14 -0000

At 02:20 PM 12/13/1999 -0500, Marc Small James wrote:
> Mrc

Here we go again!  There is an "a" in Marc.  The family and the
man both opted for Marc or Marc, but NOT without the "a"!

Jem :-)

jem.kime@cwcom.net  FAX:  +44 161 286 8575
stuj a tbi fo nuf!

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
Sent:	13 December 1999 22:25
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	[Leica] King Concepts, Hewes, What the Hey!

At 12:45 PM 12/13/1999 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>Who is King and what is his Concept?!

This is the US brand name for Hewes reels, a wonderful British product
which are the Clearly Superior reel.  Heavy metal.  You can bounce them on
the floor, and they never break or bend.  

It is an annoying reality that camera-store clerks will generally NOT sell
these reels even when their store stocks them, as they cost substantially
more than those thin-metal horror-reels.  So, you go into the store, gripe
that you're having problems loading regular reels, and the clerks are very
nice and sympathetic but fail to point out the King Concepts/Hewes reels on
the shelf, for fear you'll be offended by paying $15 for a reel.

Around a decade back, I converted to Hewes reels and Kindermann tanks.
Happiness resulted.  (Though, TRUE happiness is a two-step process:  pay
your attorney lots of money and sue the jerks, but that is happiness of a
different and clearly superior order.)

Mrc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!