Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Post wrote: > > I got a sneakin' suspicion, as they say around here, that the R8 > Motor/Winder will have some surprises. Intervalometer? Auto rewind? WHo > knows? The Elves of Solms may have a couple of tricks up their well tailored > sleeves. Dan, My vote is for simple and quiet and fast and modest battery drain. With a vertical release button on both winder and drive. Would like ability to do 6-8 frames a sec. Faster would improve their potential market, though maybe not by much--the sports shooters are still adicteded to AF. The intervalometer would be best external--too seldom needed to be worth the the complication, for me. Auto rewind is a pain unless selectable. Sometimes I load film and then change mind. with N90s you either lose the roll as it completely rewinds or open back whereever you are and lose the first few frames. Both awkward. F3 rewind works fine except need auto shutoff. I can't tell you how many times I have punched rewind on the f3s and set them down to do something else and comeback minutes later (attention deficit disorder, I'm sure, now what were we talking about???) and it is still winding that film round and round and round. Donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com