Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello LUG, I have just finished developping 18 rolls of films I shot this couple of weeks, the number of shots has drastically increased these days thanks to the M4-2 Winder I acquired a week ago. It's bulky, it's heavy, and it's noisy, using it denies virtually every reason I started to use Leica for, but what a heck it is fun. There is one concern, though. It was one evening I was shooting with slow speeds like 1/8 and 1/15, I accidentally released my finger from the shutter button while the shutter was still in operation. Winder made a big *bump* noise at first and did not wind until I pressed and released the button again. I know a little bit about Leica M mechanism and if I remember correctly Leica M's keeps the winding mechanism locked until the shutter operation was complete(correct me if I am wrong), but I have a gut feeling that what I did harmed my M4-P or the winder if not both to some degree. Is there anyone out there who ran into trouble doing exactly what I did? I checked all the speed on M4-P and even did test shooting. Everything still seems fine. --- Tomoyuki Kumagai, a.k.a. "Tom" http://www.kumasite.com/