Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I went to the show and traded that Canon 7 for a user IIIf, with a Summitar and a Russian turret finder. The variable finder is lovely; the Summitar is optically *mint*, and mechanically pretty nice, except that some moron didn't know how to collapse it properly, so scarred the thin barrel in interesting ways. As for the IIIf. It worked beautifully at the show (that is, after Sherry extracted a film chip from it): shutter speeds accurate, etc. As soon as I got it home, the slow speeds stopped working altogether. You put it on one second, and you get 1/30th. You put it on 1/10, and you get 1/30th. It's as if the slow dial has ceased to exist. So what does this mean? Complete CLA? Or is there some way of bringing them back? (With a Rollei, dry firing a few hundred times often restores an erratic shutter; but I've never had a shutter do precisely this on me.) I suppose this is karmic retribution for my taking Lazarus's name in vain... Also, is there any way to adjust the viewfinder myself? It seems accurate at infinity, but off a bit at four feet, five feet etc. (Although this might simply be the inaccuracy of the markings on the lens barrel, as pointed out by someone else. I'll put a film through it and see what happens.) Does accuracy at infinity generally mean that it will be correct throughout the range? My Canon IVsb is definitely a bit off; it would be great if there were some simple adjustment I could make on my own. cheers, Douglas Cooper (who owes Marc Small a great deal for his archival recommendation of this Russian finder. Btw: mine has a circular semi-transparent image surrounding the bright rectangle, whereas some are merely rectangular; why this difference?)