Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Motor Drive R8
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:19:09 -0700

Well Eric what is keeping them from adding them?  

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From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 8:40 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Cc: dmorton@journalist.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Leica] Motor Drive R8


At 03:05 PM 9/7/99 +0100, David Morton wrote:
>Well that's one opinion. OTOH can you imagine an R9 that's larger than the
>R8, in the same proportion as the AX is to the contemporary Contax manual
>focus bodies? The thing would need a powered wheelbarrow!

You assume the R8 needs that kind of an increase. As I understand it, the 
R8 was designed with room to spare for additions like AF and digital.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Computers can never replace human stupidity.