Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I' ve got a couple more LTM questions. I've just bought my first LTM - a >Leica >F. > >1) Is there any danger in changing the shutter speeds before the shutter is > cocked? I haven't trained myself to not do it yet, but am practising. > No danger, but how will you know what speed you've set? >2) The 1-20 speed setting seems pretty straight forward, but is there any > preference to what setting I should leave the slow speed setting at > when I am firing the high speeds? Leaving it on 20 will avoid a nasty shock later when you set the fast tdail to 20 and get one second. > >3) Can someone give me a rough idea what a CLA costs? > Has anyone had an intermittent shutter? I'm not sure that I'm seeing > ghosts, but I have picked up the camera a couple times, and the > shutter has fired slowly. But if I wind and fire it a few more times, > it seems fine. Maybe the old girl just needs to stretch and limber up > a bit before going out? Sounds like a CLA is needed. > Ken Wilcox - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>