Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]First, for details on these discrepancies, check out Jim Lager's fine books or Van Haesbroek's somewhat less useful writings. You raise three points: Shutter-speed dial: on MOST TM Leicas, the shutter speed dial turns AS the shutter is cocked, starting when the film-advance knob begins to be turned, and finishing at about the time it finishes. Neither of your cameras seems to do this. Finish: IIIc cameras run from the early Wartime to 1950. These were NOT pleasant times in Germany. Supplies were tight. So, IIIc vulcanite and chrome finishes are all over the board: they used what they had on hand the day your camera was built. flash synch: the IIIc came without synch. If one of yours has it, then it's been added, possibly by Leica. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!