Leica M3 User manual

Brand: Leica

Model: M3

Category: Bridge cameras

Type: User manual

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I Film lronsport

ond shutter

tensioning

lever

2

Shutter

releose

button

3 Film

counler

4

Shutter speed

dicl

5

Reversing lever for rewinding

the film

6

Red dot

on

boyonet mounl of

lens

7 Deloyed oction releose

(self-timer)

8 Button of boyonet lock

9 lens

focusing lever

lO

Seleclor lever

for viewfinder

| | Aperlure

scole

of lens

12 Deprh

of

field ccole

l3

Rongefinder

window

14

llluminoting

window for

finder fromes

l5 Viewfinder

window

16

Rewind knob

17 Accessory

shoe

18 Flosh

socket

for flssh bulbs

19

Flash

socket for

electronic flqsh

2O Finder

eyepiece

2l

s ond b: Eyelets

for corrying strop

22 Bqse

plote

locking key

23

Film indicotor

24 Tripod

bush

25

Hinged

comero

bock

A. Tqking the Picture

l. Remove

the lens cop. Remem-

ber olso to

extend ond lock

the

lens if collopsible.

2. Set operture

(l

I

)

ond shutter

speed

(4).

3.

View

subiect through

finder

eyepiece

(20)

ond orronge it

within

the finder frome. Fo-

cus lens

on

moin

pqrt

of sub-

iect

(9)

by

getting

the

two

imoges

visible

in rongefinder

(20)

to fuse

into one.

4.

Releose

shutter

(2).

5.

Work

tronsport

lever

(l

)

to

get

the

LEICA reody for

the

n ext

exposu

re.

B.

Chonging

lenses

l. Depress

locking

button

(8)

of

LEICA

boyonet

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tote

lens

to

the left, o

nd

lift

out.

2. To

insert

olternotive

lens,

ploce

in

position

with

red dot

(6)

opposite

red

dot

next

lock-

ing

button

(8),

ond

turn to

the

right

until

lock engoges

oud-

ibly.

C.

Inserting

lhe

Film

l. Remove

bose

plote,

swing

open

comero

bock, ond with-

drqw

toke-up spool.

2.

Push film

leqder under

spring

of

toke-up

spool.

3. Insert

cossette

ond

toke-up

spool

into comero

os

shown

by

diogrom.

(Note

detqiled

instructions

on

poges

24-26).

4.

Check

thot

teeth

of

tronsport

sprocket

properly

engoge

f ilm

perforotions,

then

close

bock,

reploce bose

plote,

ond

lock.

Advonce

film

by

two

fromes

to

bring film

counter

(3)

to

No. 0. The comero

is

then

reody

to shoot.

Set

film

type

qnd

speed on

film

indicotor

(23).

Unlooding

Set

reversing

lever

(5)

to

"R".

Pull out

rewind

knob

(16)

ond

turn

in direction

of orrow un-

til film

is rewound, ond

-

of-

ter

overcoming

o slight

resist-

qnce

-

free of

toke-up spool.

Open

bose

plote,

ond

remove

cossette.

5.

6.

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2.

3.

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world

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lens.

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Leica M3 User manual

Brand: Leica

Model: M3

Category: Bridge cameras

Type: User manual

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