Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:29 AM 2/3/98 -0800, you wrote: >David Freedman wrote: > >> Here I am chomping at the bit for the >> full-fledged motor to be released in the >> fall just so that I can achieve a >> framing rate half that of my Nikon F5. > There seems to be a lot of noise about the R8 winder. It is a winder, right? Not a motor drive? I have used winders with my R3, R4, R6, and R7's. Actually the winders I bought for my R4's have migrated up to my R7's. I don't believe, other than perhaps a couple of times, over the past 22 years, I have pushed the release on the winder and actually taken photographs at the winder fps rate. I personally have no use for winder or drive fps photography. For me, the winder provides a way of not disrupting the flow while photographing. I can think of where I am in bracketing. Cranking the advance lever in a difficult set-up can be disrupting. When hand holding the camera, it allows photographing without removing the camera from your eye. As does Tom's winder on an M camera. So, for a lot of us, the framing rate is totally immaterial. As long as it winds, that's all that counts. Jim