Re: [Leica] Vintage M observations

[Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>]

ralph,

clearly (to ME) you prefer those Minoltas over the R3 & R4. 

But I am curious, just what Leica do you USE? (there might be some
insight here)

Dennis


ralph fuerbringer wrote:
> 
> sorry but i have no  additional details on the minolta winders. but
> historically the minolta xd 11 has it all over the r4 with its retrograde
> exposure sysstem.  the xd 11 was a splendid camera, the  first  programmed
> slr, employing a then state of the art silicon cell.
>   the copycat r4 has cds cell alresady obsolete(much less sensistive & has
> to be conditioned to read correctly much of the time). hope this is of
> help.rof
> 
> > From: Bmceowen@aol.com
> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:34:11 EDT
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Vintage M observations
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 7/4/00 6:46:43 PM, rof@mac.com writes:
> >
> > << there is also the incredible fact that the r3 and
> > r4 were actually discontinued
> > minolta bodies --they even accept the cheap minolta winders. >>
> >
> > I knew that the R3 was an XE-7 and the R4 was an MD-11 but I did not know
> > they took the Minolta winder. Is this true? Surely this could only apply to
> > the R4 as the XE-7 did not accept a winder as I recall . . . BTW, one of the
> > few reasons I have considered buying an R4 or R5 is that I really liked the
> > MD-11. I can think of few things nicer than that body with Leica glass . . .
> >
> > Bob (curious about the R world) McEowen