Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just to narrow this down a little bit, number 29279 doesn't need the shutter depressed to rewind... Richard >From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> >Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >To: "'Jim Lager'" <jlager@bellatlantic.net>, ><Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film,you had >to do keep the shutter button depressed? >Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:11:42 -0500 > >Jim, or anyone on LUG, > >Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to do 2 things? > >One, turn the rewind lever to R, but you also had to keep the shutter >button >depressed? > >I have a Leica 1a with mushroom button, serial number 14222. To rewind the >film, this camera needs its shutter button to be pressed down, and the >rewind lever turned to R. > >Is there any record of such instructions? > >My second 1a, with serial number 32791 (18 thousand and 5 hundred cameras >later!) doesn't have this restriction of needing the shutter button to be >pressed while rewinding. > >Regards, > >Vick Ko > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information