Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 RF vertical adjustment... the answer
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:47:17 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

Well, thank you, Jim.....I'll take their word that the later M6 is 
so equipped....the earlier ones CERTAINLY were not....Nor were the 
"pre M6 window M4-P"

I'll accept their assurance that now the cameras are adjustable in this 
manner.....BUT
It still doesn't explain why the previous design was abandoned.....if it ain't 
broke, why fix it? (question to Leica, not Sherry, of course.)

I'll feel differently about newer M6s in this regard....I basically like the 
camera, but still the fit/finish ain't no M4....

Walt


On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:40:03 -0800 Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> 
wrote:
> I first asked Sherry:
> 
> At 09:43 PM 1/31/99 -0800, Sherry wrote:
> >It is not a screw.  A special tool is required.
> >  Best regards, Sherry
> >
> 
> And I just called Ernst Hartmann who said, "M6's require a special tool
> rather than a screw driver. The adjustment is exactly the same as it always
> was, between the viewfinder windows, just now requires a special tool to
> turn the eccentric."
> 
> Jim
> 
> PS... sorry Walt, it's NOT a glued assembly as you told me. It is the same
> as it's always been. Just more difficult for the lay person.