Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/24

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Subject: [Leica] I am in R8 love
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Fri Sep 24 18:06:09 2004
References: <BAY19-DAV9KZGUUHoFW000233b4@hotmail.com> <BAY19-DAV9KZGUUHoFW000233b4@hotmail.com>
 
Reminds me of my old Minolta 9000 and it's motor drive.  It was always a
bugger to attach the drive to the camera and get it to work right away.  I
always had to clean the contacts between the camera and the drive, and
wiggle the thing back and forth while attaching them.

-dan c.

At 08:51 PM 24-09-04 -0400, Jim Hemenway wrote:
>Just wait till you get the Motor Drive.... if you go ahead with that, 
>then don't forget to wipe all the external gold contacts on the camera 
>and the drive, with a cotton swab and alcohol before you attach them 
>together
>
>I'd recommend against a Motor Winder.
>
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