Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/26/00 7:02:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wajsman@webshuttle.ch writes: << No it does not. Nathan Miro Jurcevic wrote: > My understanding is that the the R8 needs ROM lenses to display the F-Stop > in the viewfinder. >> So if am I understanding this correctly, someone with six lenses who has them ROM converted @ $200/ea has spent $1200 just to permit the auto zoom in a Metz strobe and nothing else? I might understand all those contacts could serve a purpose in a yet-to-be-debuted body, but then why all the contacts in the R8? Is this a bigger and more deplorable scam than the $1100 28-70 Sigma zoomlens, or about the same?