Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Winogrand/blind shooting
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:14:16 -0600

At 12:23 AM 12/20/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Interesting. I think it wasn't the camera they were responding to, but the
>motor. Don't you love the way they overdub the motor sound (like the sound
>of an AE-1 winder) on TV when someone takes a photograph. Since you were
>using an R8, we KNOW there wasn't a motor drive involved <G>.

Saw a movie recently with an M6, and it sounded eerily like an F5. Mirror
slap and all. 

Maybe it had the Visoflex 5 which hides inside the M6?

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