M Shutter Release Point Adjustment

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Copy of a message I also posted on Leica-Users:

I have been cheerfully posting a link on how to adjust your shutter release point:

http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/v20/msg03323.html

Unfortunately it is not all peaches and cream. If you move the flat spring over too far, which can even mean moving it all, it affects whether the second curtain is held after the first curtain is released. The arrester "B" does not engage as it is controlled by the same flat spring. What happens is that all your high speeds are 1/1000, 1/30 to 1 sec are normal and B is 1/1000 too. One person adjusted his release point and had the above symptoms and emailed me. I fiddled with my camera and immediately had the same problem. So you might be able to adjust your release point or you might not. Go slowly and put it back where it was if all goes awry.

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), February 06, 2002

Answers

I'm a veteran tinkerer, but there are limits (often found "the hard way"). It's one thing to bandage your cut finger, quite another to self-suture a deep wound. Fight a speeding ticket yourself, or defend yourself on a DUI. I adjust the 500/1000 speeds and horizontal rangefinder adjusment on my M6's but messing with the spring-loaded stuff and shutter curtains is where I let Sherry or Don do what it is they do so well.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 06, 2002.

Thanks for the 1 up John. I just did the adjustment and now the shutter release is much smoother. Did it on my 0.85 body with great success (took about 1 hour of tinkering around). I just hope the nail polish will hold.

Too bad about my 0.72 though. I just found out that advancing the film turns on the meter. Upon closer inspection, it would appear that the earlier mishap has bent the shutter release button/ shaft as the Softie "wobbles" on it. Oh well... I guess Reinhold will be getting ahold of this body soon....

:-(

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), February 06, 2002.


Based on this and that other recent thread.........I think you folks should all defer to the experts in the field.

-- Tom Nutter (tmnphotos@erols.com), February 07, 2002.

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