Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Upside Down Shutter Speeds
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:22:52 -0700

I'm very curious as to why you are holding your camera upside down? I used
to do that with my Hasselblad and Rollei TLR, when photographing over a
crowd, but you could look up into the ground glass and see what you were
photographing. So when would you hold an M camera upside down? I know...
while photographing the Blarney Stone. :)

Jim


At 09:57 PM 4/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Friends
>
>When my M-camera is used rightside up, the shutter speeds appear to reflect
>that which is on the shutter speed dial.  When the camera is upside down,
>after a few exposures, the shutter seems faster than what is reflected on
>the shutter speed dial (more obvious at the half and one second settings).
>
>Has anyone on the LUG found this to be the case?
>
>Dan K.
>