Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As Jim has pointed out, when you hold down the rewind lever and advance the wind lever, terrible grinding and slipping noises ensue. This is the sound of gears being forced to slip. It does cause damage and Leica says do not do it. It OK with the M5 though. John Collier > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > > Okay, call me stupid...What am I missing here? I'm obviously missing > something pretty important...:-(... > > B. D. > > (Sure don't spend a lot of time taking double exposures....) > >> John Collier wrote: >> Yes I talked to Leica and they assured me that the fact that you will >> shortly have to change your winding mechanism is entirely coincidental. >> >> DO NOT DO DOUBLE EXPOSURES WITH ANY M CAMERA EXCEPT THE M5 PERIOD >> >>> From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> >>> And pay no attention to the grinding noise coming from inside your camera. >>> It's just the gears ratcheting against each other... >>> :o >>> >>> At 04:14 PM 10/4/2001 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >>> Yup. Flip down the rewind lever, and cock the shutter with the advance >>> lever...and to be absolutely sure, press down on the rewind knob while >>> you are engaging in the aforementioned sequence.... >>> >>>>> Feliciano di Giorgio wrote: >>>>> Can you do a double exposure with a M6TTL? I checked the manual >>>>> and couldn't find anything. >>>>> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html