Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] Original Leica MP
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Mon Nov 15 05:49:27 2004

on 11/15/04 5:40 AM, Jonathan Borden at jonathan@openhealth.org wrote:

> 
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:30 AM, Don Dory wrote:
> 
>> Alexander,
>> The original MP was essentially a M3 with a M2 film counter and a
>> Leicavit attached.  So if you love the M3 finder it was a very fine
>> camera indeed.  From memory, the Leicavit was made out of brass and
>> therefore on the heavy side, the function was one continuous stroke.
>> 
>> All in all a lovely camera.
>> 
> Ah.... if I could just hack my M3 to add a TTL meter -- not a TTL
> *flash* meter, just to paint a white spot on the shutter curtain and
> perhaps project an EV number (or even just a couple of diodes) into the
> viewfinder... I think the trickiest part would be adding a battery
> casing, and a dial to set the ASA.
> 
> Jonathan

See http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008PFh

Last I heard he was doing the same to an M2.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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