Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Fast handling Leica "0"
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:24:10 -0400

ARTHURWG@aol.com jotted down the following:

> "Shutter speeds can neither be set when the shutter is fully cocked, nor when
> it is released. To set the desired slit width (shutter speed) the shutter
> must be partly cocked so that the small black dot on the perforated washer in
> the dial is opposite the mark on the camera's top plate.  In order to prevent
> unintentional exposure, advancing the shutter and setting the slit width
> should only be done with the lens capped.....Important: Do not set the dial
> directly from "50" to "2" and vice versa. Instead, adjusting must always be
> done upwards or downwards step by step, , ie. from "5" to "50" the dial must
> be rotated clockwise past the figures "10" and "20", but never
> counterclockwise past the "2."

Wow.  The Linux of cameras.

M.

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