Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shutter controls on screw-thread Leicas
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:49:40 -0700
References: <p05010409b726247e148f@[64.130.153.253]>

>Herbert & Lee Kanner <kanner@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Here is something I've always wondered about. The instructions
>> for getting slow speeds (below 1/20) on the old boxes said to set
>> the high-speed dial to 1/20, and then to choose the desired
>> exposure on the slow-speed dial that is on the front of the camera.
>> I've wondered what would happen if you were to choose a speed
>> higher than 1/20 on the "fast" dial and a speed lower than 1/20 on
>> the "slow" dial. My guess if that one would get a long exposure
>> through a slit of width less than that of the 35 mm frame. The
>> other possibility is that the mechanism would self-destruct.
>>
>> Does anyone know?


If you do what you are suggesting above, you just get the fast speed, I
believe.

Unless the "high speed" dial is set to it's slowest speed, the slowspeed
dial is simply overridden.

At least, that's what I've always thought (and on the Lug, that equals truth).

Guy

In reply to: Message from Herbert & Lee Kanner <kanner@acm.org> ([Leica] Shutter controls on screw-thread Leicas)