Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Hans, I sat down and calculated the f/stop differences between the current >speed scale and the old one. The stickiest part of the scale comes at >between 1/5 and 1/25 sec. The other parts of the scale will be off from >between 1/5 to 1/3 stop versus the modern scale. If you don't do a lot of >work between 1/4 sec. and 1/30 sec. You shouldn't have many problems. I >suspect that those speeds are most likely used with fast B&W film in your >street work. The latitude there should make it acceptable. I'm really curious about Han's question about Leicameters. The new scale has one extra speed compared to the old one. Has anyone tried a Leicameter with old-style speeds on one with the current speeds, or vice versa? I can imagine that it could still work normally, since slightly in-between settings would be close to the actual speed, as Ben indicates, and since the meter itself doesn't have click stops. I would imagine that this would have been an issue at the time, when the speeds were changed. - -Paul