Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pat Of course. It was the Super Kodak SIX-20. My father bought one at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939-40. Complete with case, filters shade etc. He hardly ever used it. He preferred to use his Super Ikonta B Jerry Patrick Jelliffe wrote: > Wasn't there a high end Kodak camera in the > 1930's/40's with auto exposure? Wonderful folding > design, few made, highly collectable. Anybody know? > > Patrick > > --- Skip Williams <leica@skipwilliams.com> wrote: > > I don't know about 1972, but the Olympus OM-2 had an > > electro-controlled, horizontal, cloth shutter in > > 1975, although it still retained the moving needle > > finder readout. The LED's had yet to hit the scene, > > which came somewhere around 1978 when the Canon A-1 > > was introduced. > > > > Skip > > > > > > > > > >Subject: RE: [Leica] M motor > > drive/winder/RabidWinder > > > From: "Robert G. Stevens" > > <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> > > > Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:06:33 -0400 > > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, > > leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > > > >At 12:09 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, bdcolen wrote: > > >>M6= 1954 camera with 1963 metering system > > >>M7= 1954 camera with 1972 metering system > > > > > >I think you missed this one by a decade. The M7 is > > more like a 1982 > > >metering system. I think the 1970's auto cameras > > still had the needle that > > >moved up and down to display the shutter speed the > > auto meter > > >selected. The M7 has caught up to the Canon AE-1 > > or Nikon FE/F3, with the > > >exception of program more. > > > > > >Regards, > > > > > >Robert > > > > > > > > >>:-) > > >> > > >>B. D. > > >> > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > >>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] > > On Behalf Of John > > >>Collier > > >>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:06 AM > > >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > >>Subject: Re: [Leica] M motor > > drive/winder/RabidWinder > > >> > > >> > > >>If by "burst" you mean continuous, then the > > M-Motor will do about three > > >>frames a second. I think the original poster used > > burst to imply five > > >>frames a second or more. The M6 was not designed > > in the eighties. It is > > >>a simple adaption of the M3. The M cameras were > > never designed with a > > >>Motor/Winder in mind. They need an electronic > > connection between the > > >>M/W and the body. As with all purely mechanical > > M/Ws (including Nikon) > > >>you have to be careful when using the slow shutter > > speeds. > > >> > > >>John Collier > > >> > > >>On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Jerry > > Lehrer wrote: > > >> > > >> > Isn't it embarrassing to see that a 30 year old > > Nikon and it's ancient > > >> > > >> > motor drive pushing an SLR with it's flip-flop > > mirror can do a burst > > >> > of exposures; and a newly designed Leica Motor > > cannot? The Leica M-6 > > >> > was designed looong after the Nikon F2 and it's > > motor drive was > > >> > obsolete. > > >> > > > >> > Even the old clockwork MOOLY could do burst > > exposures. > > >> > > >>-- > > >>To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > >> > > >>-- > > >>To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > >-- > > >To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html