Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:21 PM 11/20/96 -0400, Dan C. wrote: >My old M4-P allowed me to set the shutter speed dial to intermediate >settings (except for the range between 1/8-1/15 sec, for some reason). My >M6's owners manual specifically states that intermediate speeds are NOT >available. Is this really true or are intermediate values available but >that the meter is only reliable at standard shutter speed increments? Wow. This is, as we say, one Really Good Question. I checked my M6 IB: no intermediate shutter speeds. I checked M4 and M3 IBs -- yes, as Dan says, intermediate save between 1/8" and 1/15". I checked the 15th (and, sadly, the last) edition of THE LEICA MANUAL: intermediate speeds are permitted. All M's from 1 to 6 have shutters close enough to design and construction to make no mind. So why, indeed, does the M6 not allow intermediate speeds? Roger, and probably many others, will rejoice to see a REAL Leica thread starting up again ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!