Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ARTHURWG@aol.com jotted down the following: > "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." Wow. The Linux of cameras. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------