[Leica] Re: Questions regarding a IIIf

[Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>]

I think the works then doesn't work shutter speeds indicate dried up
lubricant. Sometime firing it will help out some times not. A CLA is in
order.

Ken Wilcox

At 5:04 -0500 3/19/0, a fine scholar, Doug Cooper wrote:

>Well, I went to the show and traded that Canon 7 for a user IIIf, with a
>Summitar and a Russian turret finder.  The variable finder is lovely; the
>Summitar is optically *mint*, and mechanically pretty nice, except that
>some moron didn't know how to collapse it properly, so scarred the thin
>barrel in interesting ways.
>
>As for the IIIf.  It worked beautifully at the show (that is, after Sherry
>extracted a film chip from it):  shutter speeds accurate, etc.
>
>As soon as I got it home, the slow speeds stopped working altogether.  You
>put it on one second, and you get 1/30th.  You put it on 1/10, and you get
>1/30th.  It's as if the slow dial has ceased to exist.  So what does this
>mean?  Complete CLA?  Or is there some way of bringing them back?  (With a
>Rollei, dry firing a few hundred times often restores an erratic
>shutter; but I've never had a shutter do precisely this on me.)
>
>I suppose this is karmic retribution for my taking Lazarus's name in
>vain...
>
>Also, is there any way to adjust the viewfinder myself?  It seems accurate
>at infinity, but off a bit at four feet, five feet etc.  (Although this
>might simply be the inaccuracy of the markings on the lens barrel, as
>pointed out by someone else.  I'll put a film through it and see what
>happens.)  Does accuracy at infinity generally mean that it will be
>correct throughout the range?
>
>My Canon IVsb is definitely a bit off; it would be great if
>there were some simple adjustment I could make on my own.
>
>
>cheers,
>
>
>Douglas Cooper
>
>
>(who owes Marc Small a great deal for his archival recommendation of this
>Russian finder.  Btw:  mine has a circular semi-transparent image
>surrounding the bright rectangle, whereas some are merely
>rectangular; why this difference?)


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