[Leica] Selftimers

["Wood, Darrell (London)" <wooddar@MLE.CO.UK>]

Marc,

I have been using a Hamma selftimer.  A clockwork device.  Is the OZTNO the
same or is more userfriendly.


Regards


Darrell


Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:20:33 -0500
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] selftimers on M6 (LTM to "M""

At 11:22 PM 1998-11-30 EST, Mary Grace (de Milo) wrote:
>  I have both Tom A's soft release & the OZTNO/14088 that is commonly
>  used as a soft release on the "M"s but was originally designed for the
>  conversion of a LTM cable release to one that could be used with the 
>  "M"s.  

I splutter.  The OZTNO/14088 isn't "commonly" used as anything:  it is a
rather rare piece -- just try to find one to buy!

I suppose it would work as a soft release, but not very well, and I
certainly have never heard of anyone using it as such.  It is much better
at its intended purpose -- adapting LTM gear to M shutter releases.  The
APDOO and OZTNO combination is the factory solution to a self-timer on an
M4-2, M4-P, M6, M1, MD, MDa, or MD-2.  I wrote a piece on this for
VIEWFINDER five years or so back, during Moss's first tenure as editor, but
he never ran it.


Marc