Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] depth of feild indicatot
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:41:35 -0400

At 02:13 PM 4/18/98 -0400, Michael Garmisa wrote:
>I have an M3 sn 926,###.  I read at http://www.cameraquest.com/mguide.htm
that
>the M3 had a depth of field indicator starting at 919,251 at was then
>discontinued.  I'm new to Leica and I'm wondering if anyone has any other
info
>on this.  It seems my camera is pretty close to the sn it began with so i
would
>assume my camera has it but I can't seem to locate it.  BTW, the lens is a
>collapsible 90mm f4.0 elmar.

Look for notches on the top and bottom of the RF image in the VF.  If you
have the notches, you have the DOF indicator.  I cannot understand why
Leitz/Leica discontinued this rather user-friendly feature.

Marc


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