Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FOM 2/year 2
From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:27:34 -0400

Defeating the FOM2 honor system is not even sporting.  You could never know
whether a shot was taken with a Hexar or Leica body without measuring the
frame on the negative and looking for the distinctive edge marks.  And for
lenses, no one is able to tell A from B from C consistently.

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Dante Stella
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on 7/3/02 2:38 PM, Jeffery Smith at jls@runbox.com wrote:

> Defeat the honor system? That never works for me. I don't even cheat on my
> income tax and, despite being an administrator, don't have my parking
> tickets on campus "fixed". But I sleep just fine. With my luck, if I
> started my life of crime by submitting a 35/2 Hexanon shot under the guise
> of it being a 35/2 Summicron shot, someone would come up with a way of
> "fingerprinting" bokeh and nail my ass.
> 
> Jeffery
> 
> 
> At 02:03 PM 7/3/02, you wrote:
>>> I too have an uneasiness about the FOM2 only accepting Leica taken
>>> photos. There is no way to enforce the demand.
>> 
>> That is true, but there is the old fashioned honor system--probably out of
>> date.
> 
> 
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