the_mia•2mo ago

Found out the original Leica M3 shutter curtain silk was actually woven in Switzerland, not Germany. Read it in a 1960s repair manual from a shop in Chicago.

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williams.amy2mo ago

So much for German engineering. Guess they outsourced the fancy fabric.

skyler_kim152mo ago

Oh man, @williams.amy, that's a solid burn right there. Maybe the engineering was just for the parts that don't get sat on. Would explain a lot, honestly. Feels like every company is cutting corners somewhere these days.

simonw411mo ago

Blows my mind how much stuff is secretly made elsewhere. @skyler_kim15 saw it before I did - this kind of shortcut is everywhere now, even back then.