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This will be old hat for you, but I can still get carried away by the mechanical wonder of the original curtain shutter and the incremental improvement it underwent. Please be lenient towards a relative newcomer to LTM innards iPhone slow motion of IIIa timing mechanism: http://www.galerie-elsner.de/video/IIIa.MOV [ The video file is 8 MB, so those on a mobile or on a slow internet connection might refrain from clicking the link ] This is from the original German patent published in 1926 (declared valid as of 1924):

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 115th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 740 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for May 2018 is: Something ending in ~ing. This month's theme is any pictures containing something ending in ~ing. It could be Charing Cross, chairing a meeting, ending, something, smiling, filing, piling, nothing, noting, boating, floating, sinking, thinking, shrinking, beginning, frowning, browning, drowning, clowning, clapping, slapping, slippering, shivering, wincing, mincing, pincing, kinking, pinking, winking, pinching, synching, sinking, drinking, an inkling, banding, handing, handling, mounting, a changeling, dangling, wrangling, jangling, mangling, a foundling, founding, bounding, sounding, rounding, wounding, crooning, spooning, tuning, tainting, painting, panting, wanting, bellowing, belaying, bellying, bell ringing, finger spinning, knitting, kitting, sitting, shading, wading, fading, hiding, riding, a siding, piquing, peaking, peeking, Peking, hoarding, fording, Rudyard Kipling, stippling, rippling, Worthing, reversing, reverting, Sing-Sing, adjoining, rejoicing, voicing, icing, spicing up, sitting up, sitting down, filling up, priming, stymying, chuntering, baring one's teeth, Baring Strait - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete

[ I did not find a pertinent thread via forum search; if this is a duplicate question, please be so kind to provide a link, otherwise feel free to answer ] What adapters can be reliably used on the M10 for e.g. a classic LTM Elmar 50 mm in your experience? In older threads (pre M10), the three most widely recommended were - Original Leitz (50mm seems to be a bit scarce on the market) - Voigtländer - CameraQuest/ Rayqual (seem unavailable in Europe) The M10 has been reported to be more finicky with regard to 6 bit coding. Is it also more of a diva with regard to adapters? I have read the caveats about collapsing; now I am looking out for an adapter... Thanks, Mathias

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 109th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with a wonderful array of more than 630 pictures and excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! Thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for November 2017 is: Doors, walls, windows. This month's theme is "Doors, walls, windows" which is any picture with any type of door, wall, window, or any combination of them or any word containing "door", "wall", or "window". Doors, walls, windows could be a doll's house door, someone waving from a window, a blank wall, a white wall, a white-wall tyre, a doorway, a barn door, a doorstop, a doorbell, a window-washer, a wallflower, a wallet, indoor sports, the windows to the soul, light through yonder window, wallowing in pity, wallowing in mud, an indoor pool, a window ledge, a window-winder, the Wall of Death, a Wall's ice cream sign, The Doors, a back door, a front door, a side door, a Dormer window, a pay-wall, a sea-wall, a stage door, a trapdoor, a Trapdoor spider, WallMart, George Doors, the comedian Max Wall, an end wall, a high wall, a ruined wall, a walled castle, a walled city, a swallow, swallowing, window-glass, a broken window, an arched window, a rose window, a stained-glass window, a lead-light window, a cage door, Windows 3, Word for Windows 6, window frames, wall hangings, wall art, doormen - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 110th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with a wonderful a MAGNIFICENT 1336 pictures and excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! This is a new record for Barnack's Monthly and beats the old record by more than 330 pictures! Thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for December 2017 is: Reflection. This month's theme is "Reflection" which is a picture with any type of reflection in it. It could be a reflection from a kettle, or a crystal chandelier, or a freshly washed kitchen floor, or a ballroom floor, or a ballroom mirror, or a bedroom mirror, or a barber's mirror, or a car door, or a windscreen, or a shiny bald head (like mine), or a table knife, or a spoon, or a ladle, or a lady's handbag, or a hand mirror, or a handgun, or a chrome cowling, or a chrome wheel rim, or a chrome hubcap, or a painted hubcap, or a military helmet, or an eye, or an eyepiece, or an eyeglass, or a pair of pince-nez, or a pair of opera glasses, or a milk bottle, or a telescope, or a pair of binoculars, or a camera lens, or a watch face, or a brooch, or a belt buckle, or a street lamp, or a street sign, or it could be reflection on things that could have been done better, or a reflection at a graveside, or a reflection on how lucky we are, or a reflection from a polished table, or a puddle, or a river, or an ocean, or a bridge, or a clock face, or a sundial, or an engagement ring, or a wedding ring, or a friendship ring, or an earring, or a dinner bell, or a silver salver, or a silver sword, or a silver fish, or a silver swordfish, or a silverfish, or a cat's eye, or a catseye, or a catsup bottle, or a wine bottle, or a wine cask, or a hip flask - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 108th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with a wonderful array of more than 430 pictures and excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! Thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for October 2017 is: Something beginning with S This month's theme is Something beginning with S, which was a popular topic 5 years ago so I think it's time to think about and look through all those photos you've taken in the last 5 years, or before! Something beginning with S could be the Sistine Chapel, six swollen swordfish swimming sideways in the southern seas, scissors, scission, scything, sisters, the sky, the Sky Tower, spillage, silage, silos, Sliema, Sicily, the Scilly Isles, scintillating, scantily-clad, scanning, spanning, scattering, spattering, shattering, shadowing, shading, seeding, speeding, squeezing, squeaking, speaking, stoking, stroking, spokes, shocks, stocks, Spocks, socks, smocks, spoons, spooning, spoonfuls, souls, soles, sodas, sides, sideways, sidecars, sideshows, stilettos, stilts, steels, steals, stinking, shoes, stinking shoes, sock-puppets, shares, spares, stares, stairs, stains, stained glass windows, Shire horses, Shetland ponies, shepherds, German Shepherds, Slinkies, slinky dresses, Saturday, Sunday, Summer, Spring, sprigs, springs, strings, strong, storing, snoring, shoring, sharing, shearing, steering, steers, spears, smears, squelches, Starfish, Sharks, the sun, spun, spinning, skinning, sunning, stunning - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 106th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with a wonderful array of more than 400 pictures and excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! Thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for September 2017 is: Street "Art" This month's theme is Street "Art", which is basically anything that's intended to decorate or liven up the street environment. Street "Art" could be graffiti, murals, statues, pavement chalk pictures, specially-lit buildings, street theatre, artful architecture, triumphal arches, billboards, shop window displays, fountains, buskers, flower clocks, patterns in building cladding, advertising hoardings, pictures projected onto buildings, patterns in paving slabs in pedestrianised zones, 'bigged-up' building entrances, Christmas lights, bunting, street market tents or stalls, a city marathon finishing line, street signs that have been tampered with, spray-painted stencils on walls, campaign banners, autumnal produce displays - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete

Thank you to everyone who took part in May's Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with a wonderful array of more than 600 pictures and excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme! Thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for June 2017 is: "Cloth" Your pictures should include some form of cloth, or something made from cloth, or something that cloth is made from, or include the word "cloth" either by itself or as part of another word. It could be a dish cloth, a floor cloth, the Emperor's new clothes, the latest fashion, work clothes, party clothes, Sunday best, a wash cloth, a filled washing line, fancy dress, a business suit, a clothing factory, a weaving loom, a needle and thread, knitting needles and wool, sackcloth and ashes, a ball of wool chased by a kitten, a threadbare carpet, faded curtains, a cloth cap, a Fedora, a Bearskin, a buckskin jacket, a face cloth, a moth-eaten jacket, a shiny new suit, a waistcoat, those ol' blue jeans, the cloth canopy on a sports car, beaten carpets hanging out to air, washing on a line strung between buildings, a wedding dress, a ball gown, a cleaning smock, an apron, a sail on a yacht, a widow's veil, a burkha, a hijab, a niqab, a shawl, a scarf, or a skirt - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete