Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 21:44 17/07/97 CDT, you wrote: <snipped> >One thing that facinates me is the way the mirror lock up works. Move >the lever on the left front to the lockup position. Point the camera at >the scene and push the shutter release button. The camera takes an >exposure reading and stores it and the mirror then pops up. The exposure >is not taken until you push the shutter release button again. >Apparantly, the mirror will stay up and the exposure is stored up to two >minutes. >I set the time on 1 or 2 sec and popped up the mirror and then released >the shutter. You hardly hear or feel anything. I couldn't believe it. >Quieter and less vibration than any SLR I have ever used, and this >includes all the Nikon F's except the F5, and all the Leica Rs. >Richard Hemingway Blast it, after reading that, I want one. And I thought I could resist... Joe Berenbaum