Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Old advice said to store cameras for extended periods with the shutters unloaded. By long periods, I mean months or years at a time. That advice was germaine in the '20s-'50s, before modern spring alloys were invented. Nowadays, it doesn't make any difference. If a shutter design is so bad that leaving the shutter cocked would be holding the mainspring near the deformation threshold such that it would take a set, it would certainly be on a camera that was worth nothing. In any case, putting a camera in its case for storage from one day to the next it would never have made any difference at all. Godfrey > Is it better to leave the shutter cocked or uncocked when the M6 is > sitting in its case? I usually have the shutter cocked all the time > so that I can take a new picture with a minimum of fuss, but this > means that it is usually cocked when I put it away, too. Will this > mess anything up over time?