Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] selftimers on M6 (LTM to "M""
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:20:33 -0500

At 11:22 PM 1998-11-30 EST, Mary Grace (de Milo) wrote:
>  I have both Tom A's soft release & the OZTNO/14088 that is commonly
>  used as a soft release on the "M"s but was originally designed for the
>  conversion of a LTM cable release to one that could be used with the 
>  "M"s.  

I splutter.  The OZTNO/14088 isn't "commonly" used as anything:  it is a
rather rare piece -- just try to find one to buy!

I suppose it would work as a soft release, but not very well, and I
certainly have never heard of anyone using it as such.  It is much better
at its intended purpose -- adapting LTM gear to M shutter releases.  The
APDOO and OZTNO combination is the factory solution to a self-timer on an
M4-2, M4-P, M6, M1, MD, MDa, or MD-2.  I wrote a piece on this for
VIEWFINDER five years or so back, during Moss's first tenure as editor, but
he never ran it.


Marc


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