Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] IIIf ASA dial
From: "Bill Akata" <billakata@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:49:21 GMT

Dear Leica Gurus,

I've been reading your list for the past year or so since I picked up my 
first M6TTL.  Since then I've used a lot of the information passed back and 
forth on this forum to buy  additional lenses and a second HM body.

Over the weekend I bought an old IIIf on the spur of the moment.  Just 
happened to see it in a camera shop and since I always liked the way these 
old screw mounts looked, I looked over the body and lens carefully and 
reached for the plastic.

Now I have one question which has probably been covered here innumerable 
times but I never paid attention to.  The camera is a IIIf "red dial".  What 
function does the ASA/Weston setting dial serve?  Why is there a black 
setting and a red setting?

Considering that the camera has no meter I can't think of the ASA dial 
having a specific function but then I couldn't understand why Leica would 
have bothered to make separate red and black settings if it served no 
purpose.

Thanks in advance for your help.


Bill Akata


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