Leica M3 Instructions 6 pages User manual

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_,     Lr      we hope you will derive os much pleosurefrom it qs the mul-
         titude of confirmed LEICA enthusiostsoll over the world.
          In the LEICA M 3 you hove the utmost in photogrophic perforlhqnce,
        speed, ond conveniencethot we, os speciolistsin 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 thousondsof tests ond triols ot )rG honds of the elite of
         internotionolphotogrophers.





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You will see for yourself the scope ond precisionof the LEICA ond
how in mony yeors'time it will still be os exqct ond reliobleos it is now.

As o LEICA owner you hqve of your disposol o universolsystem 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

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                                  A. Tqking the Picture
                  6 Red dot on boyonet mounl of lens
                  7 Deloyed oction releose (self-timer)                      l. Removethe lenscop. Remem-
                                                       ber olso to extend ond lock
                  8 Button of boyonet  lock                        the lens if collopsible.
                  9 lens focusing lever
                                                              2. Set operture (l I ) ond shutter                 lO Seleclor lever for viewfinder                                                  speed (4).
                                    |  | Aperlure  scole of lens
                                                             3. View subiect through finder
                12 Deprh of field ccole                        eyepiece (20) ond orronge it
                     l3 Rongefinder window                           within the finder frome. Fo-
                14 llluminoting window  for finder fromes           cus lens on moin pqrt of sub-
                     l5  Viewfinder  window                                iect (9) by  getting the two
                16 Rewind knob                          imoges visible in rongefinder
                17 Accessory shoe                               (20) to fuse into one.
                18 Flosh socket for flssh bulbs                     4. Releoseshutter (2).
                19 Flash socket for electronic flqsh                  5. Work  tronsport lever  (l ) to
             2O Finder eyepiece                              get the LEICA reody for the
                     2l  s ond b:  Eyelets for corrying strop               n ext exposure.
               22 Bqse plote locking key
               23 Film indicotor                             B. Chonging lenses
               24 Tripod bush                                                    l. Depress locking button  (8)
               25 Hinged comero bock                              of LEICA boyonet !'nount,ro-


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tote lens to the left, o nd  lift             sprocketproperly engoge f ilm
   out.                                      perforotions,then close bock,
2. To  insert  olternotive  lens,            reploce bose plote, ond lock.
  ploce in position with red dot           5. Advonce film by two fromes
   (6) opposite red dot next lock-               to  bring film counter (3) to
   ing button (8),ond turn to the            No. 0. The comero is then
   right until lock engoges oud-            reody to shoot.
   ibly.                                   6. Set film type qnd speed on
                                                 film indicotor (23).

C. Inserting lhe Film
l. Remove bose plote, swing                                D. Unlooding  open comero bock, ond with-
  drqw toke-up spool.                             t . Set reversing lever (5) to "R".
2. Pushfilm leqder under spring         2. Pull out rewind knob (16)ond
   of toke-up spool.                         turn in direction of orrow un-
3. Insert cossette ond toke-up                     til film is rewound, ond -  of-
   spool into comero os shown               ter overcoming o slight resist-
   by diogrom. (Note detqiled           qnce -  free of toke-up spool.
   instructions on poges 24-26).          3. Open bose plote, ond remove
4. Check thot teeth of tronsport             cossette.

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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