Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com> > > My IIIf shutter sounds like a train wreck. What can it be? It was just CLA'd. Ray, There could be a couple of reasons for this. First of all, often what passes for a CLA to remedy a sleepy shutter is accomplished by the cheap and easy expedient of just tightening the tension on the curtains. This invariably leads to more noise. The other thing is that there is an internal plate that has a very subtle adjustment. If it is just a hair off, it seems to increase the shutter noise. I had this pointed out to me by Youxin Ye recently, and my own experience in adjusting this plate bears out his claim. Actually, the quietest shutter that I've experienced on a screwmount Leica was a Leica II. The older shutters with a top speed of 1/500th had lower spring tension, and when properly set up are quieter than the later models. I can't see any pattern in shutter noise between IIIc and IIIf models I have or currently own. I think it has more to do with how well the camera is adjusted, with variations in the manufacture and wear of individual components adding other variables. Mark - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Langer Email address: mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html