Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R7 shutter dial problem
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:47:35 -0500

My R7 has recently developed a problem with the shutter speed dial.  From
what I can tell, there appears to be muck on the electrical contacts under
the dial which prevent it from reading the correct setting in M and T modes.
If I place the camera in A or P mode, the shutter speed readout in the VF
apepar perfectly normal and change according to the subject brightness.

Does anyone know if it is a major job to remove the top place and clean the
contacts?  It's obviously something that would take ten minutes to do (the
cleaning) and I'd rather not send it off and pay $200 for a CLA it doesn't
need.

M.

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