[Leica] Re:one more time

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

if you wind the shutter after the shutter has closed but before that little 
buzzing sound has completely stopped you will do no harm at all -- that 
sound 
(described in the leica manual as the sound of a marble bouncing on a table, 
sort of) is a weak spring bringing the slow speed delay gear back into place 
after having delayed the second shutter. It is independent of the wind 
function. 
If you tried to wind and fire before it was done the worst that would happen 
would be that the delay might not be as long as it should since ur engaging 
the 
gear before it is fully rewound, if you get the picture. Just winding, then 
taking another picture at the normal pace, gives it plenty of time to 
complete 
it's little job, no sweat.
 
Listening to that little gear operate after firing the shutter at 1/15th 
second is a good way to judge the health of your shutter -- it is a weaker 
spring 
than the drive spring and should make a slow buzz but nice and smooth until 
it 
quits. Any hesitation or intermittancy is a sign that one of the weaker 
links 
in the chain is getting gummy, which means the rest is too, you just haven't 
noticed yet. Time for a service.

You didn't ask, but you might wonder what would happen if you wound the 
shutter before the second curtain had closed -- i have no idea why you would 
want 
to do that except in idle experimentation anyway, but if you did I suspect 
it 
wouldn't hurt anything. 

On the other hand, we'll never know until some quick handed person tries. 
You 
first?

c trentelman
In a message dated 10/10/04 3:59:01 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


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> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:51:25 -0400
> From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: [Leica] One more time
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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> When shooting in the slow speed range on my M6, is there any danger in
> recocking the shutter after taking a picture, but before the escapement
> mechanism has finished doing its "thing" (while the faint buzzing sound is
> still audible)?? I always wait till the buzzing sound finishes.
> 
> -dan c.
> 
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