Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter Speed Dial
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:17:41 -0700

on 14/1/00 9:02 pm, LEICAMAN56@aol.com at LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote:

> Well, John, you guessed correctly that the ss dial is no longer directly
> connected to the timing mechanism below.  It is now working through a gear
> train, and this is why the ss dial on the TTL turns in the opposite direction
> from the earlier M cameras.
> 

I wish I was intelligent enough to just deduce (guess) what they had done
but it is really a simple logic progression.

1    the speed dial is larger

2   its center had to be moved as the hot shoe/viewfinder is in the way

3   unlikely to completely redesign complicated mechanism

4   the dial does turn the opposite way

5   once suspicious, you can see the gears in the M campaign brochure.

John (just an ordinary guy) Collier