Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Fast handling Leica "0"
From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:05:03 EDT

This from the official Leica instruction sheet for the Leica 0-Series:
"Shutter speeds can neither be set when the shutter is fully cocked, nor when 
it is released. To set the desired slit width (shutter speed) the shutter 
must be partly cocked so that the small black dot on the perforated washer in 
the dial is opposite the mark on the camera's top plate.  In order to prevent 
unintentional exposure, advancing the shutter and setting the slit width 
should only be done with the lens capped.....Important: Do not set the dial 
directly from "50" to "2" and vice versa. Instead, adjusting must always be 
done upwards or downwards step by step, , ie. from "5" to "50" the dial must 
be rotated clockwise past the figures "10" and "20", but never 
counterclockwise past the "2."
  Got that? Now you're ready for the decisive moment. Arthur