Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/04

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Subject: Re: Discrepancies between IIIc's
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 22:19:25 -0500

First, for details on these discrepancies, check out Jim Lager's fine books
or Van Haesbroek's somewhat less useful writings.

You raise three points:

Shutter-speed dial:  on MOST TM Leicas, the shutter speed dial turns AS the
shutter is cocked, starting when the film-advance knob begins to be turned,
and finishing at about the time it finishes.  Neither of your cameras seems
to do this.

Finish:  IIIc cameras run from the early Wartime to 1950.  These were NOT
pleasant times in Germany.  Supplies were tight.  So, IIIc vulcanite and
chrome finishes are all over the board:  they used what they had on hand the
day your camera was built.

flash synch:  the IIIc came without synch.  If one of yours has it, then
it's been added, possibly by Leica.

Marc

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