Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I knew it would happen someday. You are now reading my mind. I don't have to type and click send any more. :-) Jim At 09:20 PM 4/12/98 -0500, Bud wrote: >Right you are Jim. I just had a *Senior* moment:-) >Bud >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Alford <alford@batnet.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 8:55 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] 3-Cam vs. ROM > > >>Bud, >> >>I don't think that the ROM feature is a cost cutting mechanism. Before= ROM, >>most lenses were 3rd cam only, not 3 cam (you only need the 3rd cam for R >>cameras). >> >>Jeff Alford >> >>budcook@ibm.net wrote: >> >>> Pascal, >>> Thanks for the information. I wouldn't doubt but that Leica's= motivation >is >>> the same as with the molded aspheric lenses....cost reduction. >Eliminating >>> cams on future lenses would save a lot of money. >>> Bud >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Pascal <cyberdog@ibm.net> >>> To: Leica Users Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >>> Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 2:35 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 3-Cam vs. ROM >>> >>> On 08-04-1998 16:08 Bud Cook wrote: >>> >>> >All my lenses are 3-cam lenses. Would these lenses work on the R8? >What >>> >functions of the R8 are lost without having a lens with built-in ROM? >>> > >>> >Do ROM lenses also have the 3-cams necessary for earlier R bodies? >>> > >>> Bud, >>> >>> Sorry for the late answer. Here it goes. >>> >>> Brian Bower in his book "Leica reflex photography" (new edition 1997) >>> says that at this stage the contact strip provides information for >>> dedicated flashguns and also to enable more precise stopping down of >>> lenses when the camera is in automatic shutter speed priority or program >>> operating modes. >>> The manual of my R8 confirms this (on page 7 of the Dutch language >>> version): "Not only a mechanical but also an electronic exposure control >>> takes place when using lenses with contact strip, and certain lens data >>> such as the lens' focal length, are passed on to the camera." >>> >>> The contact strips provide for an additional (electronic) control, e.g. >>> compensation for light fall-of in the corners. >>> The thing is, the actual use and potential future of the contact strip >>> remains somewhat in the dark. Even Leica Solms will apparently not >>> comment much on the matter. Is there another version of the R8 in the >>> offing (with electronic focussing aids for which the contact strip is of >>> course essential), or even the R9 (autofocus =E0 la Contax AX)? Only= future >>> will tell us. >>> >>> Pascal >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> t h i n k d i f f e r e n t a p p l e c o m p u t e r >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> <<< PGP public key available on request >>> >> >> >> >> >=20