Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The dial is simply a reminder. Black for Black and White and red for color. congrats on the IIIf. A very fine performer and fun to use. Ken Wilcox At 9:49 +0000 9/25/0, a fine scholar, Bill Akata wrote: >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. - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>