Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:06 PM 1/11/2001 -0800, S Dimitrov wrote: >Talking to a dealer today, I was told how to check for an early meter. I >was told that cameras with numbers below 1,7xxx had meter problems. A >way to check was to cover the lens with a lens cap and then turn on the >meter. If it's an early meter, it will stay dark, if it's a later one it >will flicker on and off. >All that said, is there any grain of truth to that? Not so much to the "trouble" part of it, as this was just a design quirk. Leica improved the meter in the later M6's and routinedly upgrade all earlier M6's which pass through their hands. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!