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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: IIIf ASA dial
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:37:22 -0400

The dial is simply a reminder. Black for Black and White and red for color.
congrats on the IIIf. A very fine performer and fun to use.

Ken Wilcox


At 9:49 +0000 9/25/0, a fine scholar, Bill Akata wrote:

>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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