Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:29 PM 1998-09-03 -0700, Robert Rose, daring and intrepid soul, wrote: >Throughly bummed out over the recent threads, I took some time out to visit a camera store and ended up with a beautiful IIIc that had a IIIf flash sync conversion. >There is a lever underneath and coaxial to the rewind knob that seems to affect the focus of the rangefinder. What does this do, and when do I use it? You almost certainly have a Black Dial conversion, as this was intended to work with the same shutter as the IIIc has. When Leica went to the Red Dial IIIf, they used a new shutter assembly. In any event, flash synchronization is "2" for the BD's, "20" for the RD's. (Personally, I prefer the BD's but, then, I've always felt the late IIIf/IIIg shutter to be a tad rougher than the earlier IIIc/d/f BD one.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!