Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 14:39 09/12/98 +0000, Alex wrote : >Hi again LUGnuts > >Having had a happy lunch-hour getting to know my 'new' R3 MOT, I have few >minor questions: > >1) There's a prong under the wind-on lever marked 'WR'. It appears to have >three positions - large dot, small dot, and none at all. What does it do? >2) There's what looks like a red LED set into the left hand end of the >camera (i.e. on the same side as the rewind knob). Is this something to do >with the battery check? Any anyway how do I check the battery? > >3) In the viewfinder I can only see the bottom half of the apertures on the >50/2 Summicron. Is this normal - seems that they're read directly off the >lens ring? > >I seem to remember reading somewhere that the R3 MOT was rather more >reliable than the standard R3 - anyone got chapter and verse on this? > >TIA for your collective wisdom. > >Slan > >Alex > >Alex Hurst >Cork Florists >19 Winthrop St, Cork >Republic of Ireland >Tel: +353 21 270 907 >Fax: +353 21 271 248 >email: corkflor@iol.ie >Website: http://www.flowerlink.com/corkflorists >Home website: http://homepages.iol.ie/~corkflor/ > > > >