Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] while you were busy bickering about wristwatches....
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:26:26 -0400

Krechtz@aol.com jotted down the following:

> In a message dated 9/18/00 12:37:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cassidy@netaxs.com writes:
> 
> << i could use some volunteers to get this working properly if anybody's got
> an hour and an M and a couple of lenses and a tape measure.... >>
> 
> What you really need, my friend, is a BOOWU-M, later a/k/a BOWUM, or #16526.
> Did you honestly believe there was something that can be done with a Leica
> that Leitz hadn't long since thought of and built some gadget to do?  O, the
> hubris!

Yeah, but using the carefully crafted BOWUM from Leitz would defeat the
whole Cassidy-scotch-tape-and-grunge-attitude towards doing it, right? ;) ;)
;)

M.

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