Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think what happened in the development of the Leica R8 motor drive is that the engineers (I am sure the Leica engineers are very good ones to a fault) are going nuts over the differences in motor drive speed when you use Nicads vs alkalines vs lithiums. In my Nikon F3, I have the Nicad pack for the drive and have also used alkalines with the standard battery pack. With the nicads film flies through the camera. The rate on that camera with the mirror up is something like 5.5 frames per second and 4.5 with the mirror operational. The camera is more responsive with the nicads, but I am sure Leica is worried about long term survival of their motor. I think they are very gun shy as they probably got burned by the previous supplier. All they have to do is look at the F3 motor and do some stealing back technology. gck