Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/12/00 3:01 am, Martin Howard at owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote: > My R7 has recently developed a problem with the shutter speed dial. From > what I can tell, there appears to be muck on the electrical contacts under > the dial which prevent it from reading the correct setting in M and T modes. > If I place the camera in A or P mode, the shutter speed readout in the VF > apepar perfectly normal and change according to the subject brightness. > > Does anyone know if it is a major job to remove the top place and clean the > contacts? It's obviously something that would take ten minutes to do (the > cleaning) and I'd rather not send it off and pay $200 for a CLA it doesn't > need. Hi Martin I had an almost identical problem with my R4 recently which I returned to Leica NJ for diagnosis. I'm afraid the solution was 300USD and was down to the switchgear in the shutter sped selector/mode selector being worn out. Sounds less likely in a younger R7 I'll grant you but it will depend on the use/abuse your R7 has had. - -- David Prakel dprakel@rochester.rr.com seeing double photo exhibition currently showing at the Community Darkroom Rochester, NY and at http://home.rochester.rr.com/prakel/exhibition/gallery.htm please check it out