[Leica] M stands for Messsucher

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Perhaps that's the origin of the Yiddish word meshugana:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meshugana
as in you gotta be?meshugana to spend so much money on a little thing like 
that!
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 




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From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sun, November 1, 2009 10:50:05 PM
Subject: [Leica] M stands for Messsucher

M stands for Messsucher
I just read it in the Leica PDF on the M9.
I never knew that!
And I thought I knew everything!
I thought M stood for M... and was rather arbitrary.

It says " The M stands for ?Messsucher?, the German term for a combined
rangefinder and viewfinder, and for a unique, individualistic kind of
photography"

I just checked google translate just says Messsucher translate to
"Rangefinder".
No talk about combined anything.

http://uk.leica-camera.com/assets/file/download.php?filename=file_4465.pdf

By the way? sounds a little close to Messerschmitt so I looked that up.
" Messerschmitt is a combined word in German. Messer means a knife, and
Schmitt means a smith."

So its a guy who makes knives. Knives which fly.


Mark William Rabiner




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