Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/05

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Subject: [Leica] M Shutter Release Point Adjustment
From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 20:16:35 -0700

I have been cheerfully posting a link on how to adjust your shutter release
point:

http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v20/msg03323.html

Unfortunately it is not all peaches and cream. If you move the flat spring
over too far, which can even mean moving it all, it affects whether the
second curtain is held after the first curtain is released. The arrester "B"
does not engage as it is controlled by the same flat spring. What happens is
that all your high speeds are 1/1000, 1/30 to 1 sec are normal and B is
1/1000 too. One person adjusted his release point and had the above symptoms
and emailed me. I fiddled with my camera and immediately had the same
problem. So you might be able to adjust your release point or you might not.
Go slowly and put it back where it was if all goes awry.

John Collier

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