Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, I'm not familiar with older folders with coupled rangefinders. I shall hit Google, thanks. The Voigtlander and Zeiss Ikon Nettar I have here have no rangefinder nor metering. The linkage to the front, which looks to be relatively flimsy, I assumed was just for retraction as on the folders I have here. I'm struggling to imagine how the coupled rangefinder you mention works. Do you have a model number I can search on for one of the originals? Regarding the metering, look at the dial on top nearest the viewfinder. It looks to have provision for ISO rating and also an A setting? A leaf shutter, as you say, ruins my TTL theory. Any non TTL metering implies a linkage, fascinating. Off this topic, I note Fuji's choice in very Nordic Booth babes in the article! Oh and no less than three new DSLRs from Sony. Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:30 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that! On Feb 2, 2008 8:22 AM, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Richard, I hadn't looked closely enough. It is a rangefinder! I see no > possible way this could be linked to the (tabbed) focus ring with a > folding bellows in between. You see that stabilizing arm extending from the body out to the lens head? It might be able to slide in and out, thus pushing a rangefinder mechanism here and there. > The old originals of course were just focussed by guess applied to the > focus ring distance scale manually. No, the Agfa's (later a Commie Iskra model), Zeiss-Ikon's and others had coupled rangefinders. > For exposure control I would guess that the lens is set exactly as per > an M, then the shutter speed is adjusted via the dial on top (complete > with A setting). An Auto setting implies that the metering is TTL! Who needs an exposure meter on one of these? I doubt seriously that it can be TTL. That would be assuming it has a focal plane shutter and it obviously has a leaf shutter. They open and close when you take the shot, so they are not letting any light through until then. It would be over-kill to have TTL with such a mechanism. Daniel _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information