Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 winder
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:03:30 -0500

At 03:42 PM 9/13/99 -0500, Richard W. Hemingway wrote:
>It seems that to turn it on you have to pull out the
>manual advance lever and leave it out???  Since I also have to focus with
>my left eye - won't this poke into my right eye??? (

No, quite the opposite. You pull out the wind lever if you don't want the 
winder to work.

And it doesn't intrude on the shape of the camera, but actually completes 
it if you ask me. And I don't mind the battery attached on the bottom, 
because that really makes the winder perform tip-top.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

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

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