Re: intermediate shutter speeds on M6?

["Hubert Nowotny" <hubertn@mail.ctr.co.at>]

Friends,

As far as I'm informed (and this is having heard rumours from a 
technician):

Leica M4 will allow intermediate speeds (not exact, but somehow 
sufficient) as the M6 also does. 

BUT:

M4 won't take harm from that, M6 will. 
Some unit inside the M6 is designed so weak that there 
is the danger the shutter speed setting (or what the heck this is 
called) will be damaged if the M6 is used with intermediate speeds.
The meter will meter rather correctly, the speeds arent't too exact, 
but intermediate. But, as mentioned, using intermediate speeds can do 
harm to your M6 (and, as far as I'm informed, not to an M4, and, not 
to a M6J, as this camera is designed somewhat more robust than the M6 
- - it's more heavy also, BTW).
Therefore, the manual tells you not to use intermediate speeds.

HTH
Hubert


> From:          Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> Subject:       Re: intermediate shutter speeds on M6?
> Reply-to:      leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

> 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.
> 
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