Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I checked the M campaign brochure and sure enough there's a photo of the M6 internals. It's a little hard to tell from the low rez photo in the PDF file, but there is an added gear to connect the new style shutter dial to the timing mechanism. So much for modifying an older M6 to the larger dial. Any ideas out there for making the ss dial easier to manipulate at eye level? Thanks to all those who helped solve this mystery. jc At 10:17 PM 1/14/00 -0700, you wrote: >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 > >