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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Intermediate Speeds
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 16:37:40 -0700

The only way to get a definitive answer is to either run a test, or ask
Leica. Or both.

Jim

At 03:20 PM 10/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>
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