Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 14/1/00 9:02 pm, LEICAMAN56@aol.com at LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote: > Well, John, you guessed correctly that the ss dial is no longer directly > connected to the timing mechanism below. It is now working through a gear > train, and this is why the ss dial on the TTL turns in the opposite direction > from the earlier M cameras. > I wish I was intelligent enough to just deduce (guess) what they had done but it is really a simple logic progression. 1 the speed dial is larger 2 its center had to be moved as the hot shoe/viewfinder is in the way 3 unlikely to completely redesign complicated mechanism 4 the dial does turn the opposite way 5 once suspicious, you can see the gears in the M campaign brochure. John (just an ordinary guy) Collier