[Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to d

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Subject: [Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to do kee
From: rhc3vt at hotmail.com (Richard Coutant)
Date: Sun Dec 18 17:23:31 2005

Just to narrow this down a little bit, number 29279 doesn't need the shutter 
depressed to rewind...

Richard


>From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: "'Jim Lager'" <jlager@bellatlantic.net>,        
><Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film,you had 
>to do keep the shutter button depressed?
>Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:11:42 -0500
>
>Jim, or anyone on LUG,
>
>Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to do 2 things?
>
>One, turn the rewind lever to R, but you also had to keep the shutter 
>button
>depressed?
>
>I have a Leica 1a with mushroom button, serial number 14222.  To rewind the
>film, this camera needs its shutter button to be pressed down, and the
>rewind lever turned to R.
>
>Is there any record of such instructions?
>
>My second 1a, with serial number 32791 (18 thousand  and 5 hundred cameras
>later!) doesn't have this restriction of needing the shutter button to be
>pressed while rewinding.
>
>Regards,
>
>Vick Ko


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Replies: Reply from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to do kee)
In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Do you know if on the older 1a, to rewind the film, you had to do keep the shutter button depressed?)