Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] frameline preview lever on M4
From: rzartarian at snet.net (Roy Zartarian)
Date: Mon May 31 01:19:36 2004
References: <BAY12-F71rmua47zf6N0003b380@hotmail.com>

There's a spring inside that needs to be replaced.  Sherry Krauter knew 
exactly what was wrong when I described the same problem on my M4 to 
her.

Roy

On May 31, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Jeff Albertson wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm a longtime Nikon SLR user who recently bought my first Leica. It's 
> a nice clean M4 with a strange problem. The frameline preview lever 
> worked intermittently, only showing changes in the framelines after 
> the lever was flicked on and off a few times.
>
> Seller stood behind the camera and offered repairs. I just got it back 
> and now the problem is worse; with no lens on the camera the 
> viewfinder always shows 35 and 135 framelines- moving the lever brings 
> up only the left and bottom lines of the 50mm frame in addition to the 
> 35 and 135.
>
> Any thoughts as to what's going on here? I have lenses on the way, but 
> none to mount now. Will mounting a lens change anything in this 
> strange equation?
>
> Thanks
> Jeff Albertson
> jeffalber@hotmail.com
>
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