stenchbings
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Reged: 16/07/2007
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Loc: uk
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good afternoon all. me and a friend were talking about how there seems to be alot of leica's associated with the german post office.and what they used to use them for? but we couldnt work out why? can anyone help?
many thanks
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BrianT
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 5987
Loc: Leeds
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Photographing meters.
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Brian BSRIPN
Oh for the days when Elvis was king and everything else was a 50th @ F11.
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stenchbings
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Reged: 16/07/2007
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Loc: uk
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sorry for my dumbness but what do you mean by meters?
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Mark_Norton
Reged: 29/06/2002
Posts: 1138
Loc: London, UK
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The Leica Ms without viewfinders were used to photograph telephone usage meters for billing purposes... An array of the meters could be photographed in a single frame for archive and audit and some unfortunate person then had to look at the images and read the totals off.
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Mark
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