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L
-
rg
o
LEICA in
your
honds
-
r
we
hope
you
will
derive os much
pleosure
from it
qs
the
mul-
titude
of
confirmed
LEICA
enthusiosts
oll over the
world.
In the LEICA
M 3
you
hove
the
utmost
in
photogrophic
perforlhqnce,
speed, ond
convenience
thot
we,
os speciolists
in
high
-Wo/l6
opticol
precision
instruments,
con
provide.
Such
o
comerq does ngtf come
into
being from one doy
to the
next. lt most fovou
rably/combines
the
experience of
q
long trodition
in
the
design
of scfntific
instruments
with
the
lotest
odvonces of modern
optics.
lt
)Gs
motured through
the
mony thousonds of
tests
ond triols ot
)rG
honds
of the
elite
of
internotionol
photogrophers.
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You
will see
for yourself
the
scope
ond
precision
of
the
LEICA
ond
how in
mony yeors'time
it
will
still
be os exqct
ond
relioble
os it
is now.
As o LEICA
owner
you
hqve
of
your
disposol
o
universol
system
of
photogrophic
equipment
which covers even
scientific
ond technicol
photogrophy.
In
its
wider
sense,
this
system
qlso
includes
the LEITZ
enlorgers
ond
the
LEITZ
minioture
proiectors.
And
the
scope
of
the
proiected
picture
is
rorely
utilized
to
its full
extent.
For
your
pictures,
especiolly
your
colour
shots,
will unfold
their
full
beouty
only
when
you
see
them
severol feet
lorge
on
o
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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
!'nount,
ro-
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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.
D.
t.
2.
3.
All
over
the
world
the
LEICA
is much
sought
ofter os o voluoble
instrument.
Moke
cr note
therefore
of
the
seriol No.
of
your
comero
ond
lens.
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Subsidiory:
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(Conodo)
Ltd.,
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