Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/04

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Intermediate Speeds
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:20:36 -0400

At 01:46 PM 1998-10-04 EDT, N B Watson wrote:
>I was glancing through the instruction book for my M2 and noted that
>intermediate shutter speeds are available with the exception of between
>1/8-1/15 (which seems reasonable because that's where the separate slow
>and fast speed mechanisms divide).  The specifications for the M6
>stipulate that itermediate shutter speeds are unavailable.  Does anyone
>know at what point/model during the M's history that intermediate speeds
>were omitted?

We discussed this some years back.  As I recall, the later M6 IB's
reinstate the intermediate-speed language.  There's no reason why this
would work on an M3 or M2 and not on later cameras, as the shutter
mechanism is pretty much identical.

Marc


msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!