Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Light weight shutter?!?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:55:54 -0500

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

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