Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<<<<<<<< then thought hang it you only live once, and entered the R >world with a chrome R8 and 70-180 zoom and winder.>>>>>>> Allister, Way to go my good man!!!!!! I love it when a guy throws caution to the wind and dives right into the cold water!!! :) You now have entered the real world of happy snapping big time! :) The lens is awesome as you'll come to learn and I see you are already pleased with early results. And the camera is a dream to use. Unfortunately I see you have already discovered the winder has some hiccups, at least yours kept working! Maybe a "frame too many!" I had two crash, one worked beautifully for over a month every day and then "silence!!!!!!!" Changed batteries, cleaned contacts and re-placed it many times to see if it would re-start. zip. The second one right out of the box advanced the first roll to frame one and went silent!!! Removed it, cleaned contacts on winder and camera and replaced winder very carefully. At the moment it has worked OK for the past 3 days. Apparantly it has something to do with the springs in the "spring loaded contact points" and they aren't strong enough? do not create enough pressure? or some version of spring thing that is creating the glitch with many winders. This is just to prepare you for what might occur, hopefully not that it will. Sounds like you had a great time in the camera stores of Japan and your experience with the people sounds similar to any time I have been there. Now we'll hold our breath until we see some of your images with the new toys. We'll be watching for them. ted