Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/11
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> comes on for 10 seconds every time the shutter button is touched unless
> the shutter speed is set to B. Keep this in mind and your batteries
> will probably last much longer.=20
I went through the same thing when I first got by M6. At first I thought =
I
had bad batteries, then when it happened with different kinds of batterie=
s
I thought I had a slow electrical leak. I was about to leave for a vacati=
on
so I wired up a couple of double A cells and a switch.=20
The cause was that the shutter release was being depressed slightly insid=
e
my case. Now I set the shutter speed to B when I'm not using the camera. =
I
found this inconvenient at first, but now I'm used to it.=20
Jacques Bilinski =F4=BF=F4
Vancouver, Canada ~ =20
=20