Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One interesting thing that I saw, I was outside shooting with the 75 with 400 speed film, I opened the aperature up and the light meter just kept blinking at 1000 even after I closed the aperature back down.. It seems like it has a slow reset time. Not a big deal, it just slows you down a little. - -Mark On Wed, 8 May 2002, J. Gilbert Plantinga wrote: > Read the manual, p. 67! That's not a "6" it's a "b" as in BATTERY > CHECK." Your batteries are about shot, cough up for some new ones, or > shoot at 1/60 - 1/125. The earlier post about the shutter locking up was > also NOT A GLITCH. When the camera is set to auto and the meter sees no > light, such as when winding on the first two frames, the shutter stays > open for the full 32-second maximum, and the previous poster lacked > either the nerve or the understanding to simply turn the shutter dial, > which then trips the shutter. > > Why can't people KISS and stop picking on this wonderful new Leica? > > Gilbert > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 02:11 PM, Paul Chefurka wrote: > > > On Wed, 08 May 2002 10:39:08 -0700, Douglas Herr<telyt@earthlink.net> > > wrote: > > > >>> I will admit to a little disappointment, > >>> though, that the very system that adds the new > >>> functionality to this camera is the one that is > >>> showing problems. > >> > >> so, would you expect the film advance or rangefinder to have teething > >> problems when auto-exposure is added to the camera??? The new > >> features are where glitches should be expected if they show up at all. > > > > I don't think I expressed that very well. I'm not surprised at all by > > the > > problems occurring in the new portions of the system, since there won't > > be > > any teething problems in the established bits and pieces. It's just a > > vague sense of disappointment, since this is the first time I've seen a > > problem with a Leica other than RF adjustments. > > > > Frankly, it's probably just infant mortality in a resistor on the PCB - > > nothing to get terribly exercised about, except for the thought of > > having > > to send it back to Solms for repair. > > > > I do remember an earlier report of the shutter button locking up in use, > > and that's mainly why I posted this. It was nice to see the error code > > flashing in the VF, though - it should make it a trivial problem to > > diagnose. > > > > Paul > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html