Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:42 AM 4/29/99 PDT, Dan States wrote: >Hi Marc and or any others who may know the answer to this...My IIIF is >timed 1/30 1/60 etc...everybody I talk to seems to have 1/25th etc. >Am I mis identifying my camera as a IIIf? The shutter assembly was changed in the course of production: the BD's are the last cameras with the original Barnack-designed shutter assembly, while the RD's introduced a new and lighter shutter assembly. The shutter-speed sequence is different: On the IIIc/IIIf BD: T - B - 1 - 1/2 - 1/4 - 1/10 - 1/15 - 1/20 - 1/30 - 1/40 - 1/60 - 1/100 - 1/200 - 1/500 - 1/1000 While, on the IIIf RD, the sequence runs: T - B - 1 - 1/2 - 1/5 - 1/10 - 1/15 - 1/20 - 1/25 - 1/50 - 1/75 - 1/100 - 1/200 - 1/500 - 1/1000 And, yes, with the IIIg, yet another shutter assembly was adopted, with the current shutter-speed sequence. Of course, the If and IIf cameras had a similar arrangement to the IIIf, mutatis mutandis. Marc Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!