Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hexar Question
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:16:45 -0700

I think I will go with door number 2. I was probably only shifting the lens
a half stop in either direction. Still it would be nice to have a little
finer indication when on manual.

John Collier

> From: Jeff Spirer <jeffs@hyperreal.org>
> 
> At 11:03 AM 3/11/00 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>> I was visiting my local dealer and played with the Hexar again. I tried it
>> in manual mode and was able to turn the aperture ring a full stop in either
>> direction under certain conditions and not get any change in exposure
>> indication. Am I missing something? I would appreciate an explanation of
>> what I might be doing wrong as this looks like a pretty serious fault with
>> the camera if true.
> 
> I have one and this doesn't happen.  I even get the half stop readouts (two
> shutter speeds blinking) in manual mode.  There are three possible
> explanations for what you observed - 1) you were below the 1/4 sec
> threshold in the display, in which case it stays on 4 (blinking); 2) the
> Konica lens is clicked in half stops and you were changing a half stop; 3)
> the demo was damaged or defective.
> 
>