Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] OT: LTM?
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri Jan 23 08:51:01 2009
References: <D3190E13-02B9-4108-86CB-AE917C4F85C0@embarqmail.com> <C59EC7AB.48DD2%mark@rabinergroup.com> <20090123065919.09394FB91B@barracuda.rutabaga.org>

Zeiss Ikon also used the designation Thread Mound - for example the 
Icarex TM was a thread mount camera while the BM had a - yes, you 
guessed it - bayonet mount. :-)

Douglas

Marc James Small wrote:
> At 01:02 AM 1/23/2009, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >When I found this out I felt like such a cool person!!!!
> >As everyone else like on the shutterbug uses SM
> >Screw mount.
> >But the in people when they really want to be cool and have nobody 
> have a
> >clue what they're talking about except the real cool insiders use LTM.
>
> Thank you, Friend Mark.  That is precisely why I developed the 
> initialism twenty years or so ago.  "Thread-Mount" does sound cooler 
> than "screw mount", which, if the truth be told, is vaguely 
> questionable in this PC world.  (I happen to own a teen-age male 
> Sulcata tortoise who would like nothing better than to "screw mount" 
> our rather younger female Sulcata.  In time, in time, Franklin!  In 
> the meantime, he can reduce his hormones while cleaning the threads on 
> my LTM lenses and cameras ... )
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] OT: LTM?)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT: LTM?)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] OT: LTM?)