Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:17 PM 11/16/2000 -0400, Ken Wilcox wrote: >They are available and inexpensive. The most common consists of a sync >plugged shoe that slides into the cmaera's shoe. It has a switch on the >side, The other piece is a cam that fits over the shutter speed dial. When >the dial spins, the cam contacts the switch, firing the flash. > This would be the Geiss Kontakt. I have and have used the IIIc Kontakt on my IIIc for a decade and without fail. Works flawlessly -- I've not yet kept a single IIIf I have owned, and that has been many! I believe you would need a Giess Kontakt III, though, as the shutter speed dial on the IIIA is smaller, I recall, than on the IIIb and later cameras. But, then, what do I know? Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!