Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Intermediate Speeds
From: nbwatson@juno.com (N. B. Watson)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:44:34 EDT

So then, would the metering diodes in the M6 respond *accurately*  to a
mid-speed setting?

Regards,
Nigel

On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:20:36 -0400 Marc James Small
<msmall@roanoke.infi.net> writes:
>At 01:46 PM 1998-10-04 EDT, N B Watson wrote:
>>I was glancing through the instruction book for my M2 and noted that
>>intermediate shutter speeds are available with the exception of 
>between
>>1/8-1/15 (which seems reasonable because that's where the separate 
>slow
>>and fast speed mechanisms divide).  The specifications for the M6
>>stipulate that itermediate shutter speeds are unavailable.  Does 
>anyone
>>know at what point/model during the M's history that intermediate 
>speeds
>>were omitted?
>
>
>We discussed this some years back.  As I recall, the later M6 IB's
>reinstate the intermediate-speed language.  There's no reason why this
>would work on an M3 or M2 and not on later cameras, as the shutter
>mechanism is pretty much identical.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>

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