Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 question
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:52:59 +0300

Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Julian,
>
> It is not so much a delay but a feeling that the movement is damped,
> rather than
> the hard click I get with other cameras. It occurs even without any
> lens
> mounted, so it is a feature of the body. I understand from others that
> this is
> normal.

Yes, it's normal. Elegant, isn't it!

Bernard.

>
>
> Nathan
>
> Julian Koplen wrote:
>
> > On my R8 the DOF lever springs back up immediately when I release
> it.  The
> > full viewfinder brightness is appreciated a bare fraction of a
> second after
> > I hear the lever hit its upper click-stop.  In other words it seems
> that the
> > diaphragm cannot open quite as fast as that lever can spring back
> up, but it
> > is in the process of doing so. I do not get a feeling of unnatural
> slowness.
> > Are you saying there is a delay in the springback of the lever
> itself?
> >
> > Regards.........Julian
>
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
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>
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