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Subject: [Leica] Screens & pixels & some guttapercha
From: "Hans Pahlen" <hans.pahlen@mark.komvux.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:52:28 +0100

Thanks Martin!
However, I don't quite understand what you mean. These images are 800 pixels wide (800 x 591 actually), and there is lots of room on my 1152x864 pixel PC-screen (size 19"). Strange that they come out so large on your screen?!? Well, I have a friend who has a Mac, and I will visit him and check what it looks like on his screen. Yes, I could optimize size too, I just forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.

Now, to keep this a little Leica-orientated: -I have almost decided to buy a M3 (because it is rebuilt to take one of Tom's Rapidwinders)!

Some of the leatherette is missing on this body, and I am not sure how to fix it myself. I know I can order self-adhesive replacement leatherette from Fargo, although I will have to cut and adapt it to the camera body all by myself. I am not sure I am able to do this... 
I have Tomosy's Leica Repair book. It includes at cutting pattern for the Leica Standard (E), but not for the M:s...

But I remember from the LUG, that it is possible to use "guttapercha". I think it is used by dentists. My question is: -How do you use this guttapercha thing, and how does it harden? Is it any good for filling up a spot as large as one square inch? Is it expensive? Has anyone done this?

I am also grateful if someone could point me to a repair shop that can replace the leatherette for me, preferably a shop with e-mail.
Any experiences and advice will be highly appreciated!

Hans

> >> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5799/roma99.htm
> >
> Wow!  116Kb and HOW big??  Surely you could limit them to 50Kb and a size
> that'll fit on a 1024x800 pixel screen, for those of us who only run a
> Macintosh G3 PowerBook over a 31600 bps telephone line...