Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:34 PM, John McMaster wrote: > I am trying out an early R8 (sn 2294***) and a DMR (sn 10029**) and having > some issues, I have read that some early R8s had issues with the DMR? > > The exposure reading is way out, about 3 stops over, waiting for a test > film to come back. Tried it with various lenses both 3-cam and ROM. > > Batteries seems to have decent charge but neither DMR release fires the > shutter and the shutter is not re-cocked - have to do the latter by hand. > > Are these incompatibilities or is something broken? I have read that some > early R8s had to be sent back to Leica for something to be changed? sounds like a number of things going wrong. my R8/DMR works as intended. meter is quite superb 99% of the time. color balance can go a bit strange on occasion sounds like it needs some work to play well with DMR Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist