Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] r3 shutter is stuck?
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed Jan 12 13:10:37 2005

Roger R. Parent <Roger.R.Parent@hitchcock.org> wrote:

> everything was working smoothly before the self timer glitch.

The mechanical self-timer of the Leicaflexes is prone to funkiness after 
many years of disuse and if the ST jams it locks the whole camera up.  IIRC 
the R3 also has a mechanical self-timer so it may be subject to the same 
troubles.  The solution with Leicaflexes is to either get the ST to complete 
its run (usually by tapping the hub repeatedly until it's done) or by 
peeling the leatherette off and removing the ST.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com