Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Good Marketing
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:08:21 -0400

Wilber Jeffcoat jotted down the following:

> Your going to loose very little. With the rom your auto and program exposures
> will be very accurate, but not that much more than a 3 cam. The other thing is
> the auto zooming of a coupled strobe (Metz 40MZ-3i). Other than this I not
> sure.

With extenders in place, ROM lenses (and ROM extenders, obviously) on the R8
will report the effective aperture setting.  I.e., a 2.8 lens with a 2x
extender with the aperture *ring* set to the "4" index will show up as "8"
in the VF, according to some Leica literature I've read on the subject.

M.

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