Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Fast handling Leica "0"
From: "Jim" <jimlong@inwave.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:41:46 -0500
References: <B61DE0FA.8586%howard.390@osu.edu>

Is this the current 0 series or the original?


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Fast handling Leica "0"


> 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.
>
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