Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:16 PM 2/29/2000 +0100, Hans Pahlen wrote: > >I will soon get a Leica IIF with serial number 612963. >According to the ser no list it is a "Leica with light weight shutter". >What is this, I have never heard about it before?!? Leica introduced a redesigned shutter mechanism in 1952 at 615,001 for the IIIf and 574,401 for the IIf. This used a shutter speed range (1, 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/25, 1/50, 1/75, 1/100, 1/200, 1/500, and, on the IIIf, 1/1000). The synchronization mechanism was also changed, from the black-dial to the red-dial, at this point. (Laney indicates that some of the IIIf's with the new shutter were BD, but I doubt this, without having heavily researched the point.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!