Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica's new models
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:08:26 +0100
References: <B8C12A49.C6E6%cyberdog@attglobal.net>

Hi Pascal,

On the camera I handled, it was not  that easy to change these settings. The dial
was pretty stiff and you had to apply some amount of force, or shall we say,
intent, to turn it. I cannot image that it would change accidentally by being
touched by your fingers or nose.

Nathan

Pascal wrote:

> On 22-03-2002 02:30 Jim Laurel wrote:
>
> > My only concern about it is that the ASA/DX
> > control dial doesn't lock, and I wonder how likely it will be to get
> > inadvertedly knocked onto an incorrect setting.
>
> Oops, that is certainly a potentially serious design flaw... Given that you
> can easily touch this with your finger or even nose. Makes me think about
> the genius who decided that there was no lock necessary to switch from AF to
> manual focus on the Minilux (rectified on the Minilux Zoom).

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