Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 motor drive update
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:48:04 -0800

At 01:04 PM 11/18/99 -0300, Greg Locke wrote:
>         That's not bad.... depending on how cold the temperatures you work
>in and how many rolls you put through in a day.

Well, it's certainly not arctic conditions I was working in, but Missouri 
can get quite cold, and my R8 held up much better than me - someone who has 
lived in Edmonton when it remained below 40 below (C and F) for six weeks! 
NiMH batteries have very good cold weather performance, even in 
battery-draining F5s! And in normal temperatures the R8 is amazingly 
conservative with batteries.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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