Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Vintage M observations
From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 5 Jul 2000 10:11:00 -0700

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 

This is clearly not helpful because the R4 has a silicon photo diode not a CdS meter cell.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
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