Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica III c( K)
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:05:30 -0400

At 12:56 AM 6/10/98 EDT, Bill Rosauer wrote:
>The IIIck was a wartime IIIc with a ball bearing shutter.  

SNIP!

>The postwar IIIc incorporated the new shutter, and functionally would be
just as
>good as a IIIck and a whole lot cheaper.


The IIIcK had TWO ball-bearings, one at either end of the shutter crate.
In use, it was found that only one such ball-bearing was necessary even
under the most hostile conditions, so postwar IIIc's and later cameras only
have the single ball-bearing, the other side reverting to a pin-bearing.

Marc


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