Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Leica Gurus, I've been reading your list for the past year or so since I picked up my first M6TTL. Since then I've used a lot of the information passed back and forth on this forum to buy additional lenses and a second HM body. Over the weekend I bought an old IIIf on the spur of the moment. Just happened to see it in a camera shop and since I always liked the way these old screw mounts looked, I looked over the body and lens carefully and reached for the plastic. Now I have one question which has probably been covered here innumerable times but I never paid attention to. The camera is a IIIf "red dial". What function does the ASA/Weston setting dial serve? Why is there a black setting and a red setting? Considering that the camera has no meter I can't think of the ASA dial having a specific function but then I couldn't understand why Leica would have bothered to make separate red and black settings if it served no purpose. Thanks in advance for your help. Bill Akata _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.