Leica M3 User manual

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you
will
deriveos much
pleosure
from it
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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
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opticol
precision
instruments,
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provide.
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being from one doy to the next. lt most fovou
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the
experienceof q long trodition in the design
of scfntific instruments
with the lotest
odvonces of modern optics. lt
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the mony thousondsof tests
ond triols ot
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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
monyyeors'time
it
will
still
be osexqct
ond
relioble
osit
isnow.
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 severolfeet 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 lenscop.Remem-
ber olso to extend ond lock
the
lensif collopsible.
2. Set operture
(l
I
) ond shutter
speed (4).
3.
View subiectthrough finder
eyepiece
(20)
ond orronge it
within the finder frome. Fo-
cuslens
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
next exposu
re.
B.
Chonging
lenses
l. Depress locking button (8)
of LEICA boyonet
!'nount,
ro-
L
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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-upspool.
2. Pushfilm leqderunder
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
film
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".
Pullout
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-upspool.
Open
bose
plote,
ond
remove
cossette.
5.
6.
D.
t.
2.
3.
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All over the
world the LEICA is much
sought
ofter os o voluoble
instrument.
Moke
crnote
therefore
of the seriol No. of your
comero
ond lens.
ERNST tEIT
Subsidiory:
Ernst
List
ltt.3d/Ensl.
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Z GMBH WETZ
Leitz
(Conodo)
Ltd.,
Printedin
Germony
t A R GERMANY
Midlond, Ontorio
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