Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/08
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My wife LOVES motor driven cameras. Back in the old days when I shooting
Olympus and she was using Nikons I even had a motor winder which I found
handy on occasion.
My wife using motors almost all the time and the most obvious difference
between her and I on a "shoot" is that she usually burns about 3 or 4 rolls
of film to my one. :)
Cheers!
kw
>I think Richard gets to the heart of the matter - it depends entirely what
>applications you're planning to use a motor or winder for.
>
>The only motors I've got are on my two Canons - an A1 and an even older F1.
>I think I've actually had them zipping through an entire film in ten
>seconds odd about twice in my entire life. Most of the time I could have
>done equally well with a much lighter winder.
>
>Funnily enough, I find auto wind-on most useful for portaiture when the
>camera's on a tripod. I can then just wander round the impromptu studio
>with a long air release chatting to the sitter and watching for the 'right'
>expressions.
>
>Motors are also useful for making the 'pro' thoroughly envious at weddings,
>though woe betide you if you upstage him or her too much!
>
>Slan
>
>Alex
>
>Alex Hurst
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