Re: [Leica] R8 Winder noise

[Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>]

Greg Bicket wrote:

> One unexpected distraction is that one must remove part of the body
> [containing batteries] when attaching the winder.  The winder is not loud,
> as winders and motor drives go, [some M users think it sounds like a train
> crash!] but if one needs to trip the shutter as quietly as possible with no
> winder noise, the winder removes, taking with it the batteries which have
> driven not only its motor, but the camera's meter/shutter electronics.  And
> different size batteries drive the winder or the body alone without the
> winder.  The result is that sometimes when I am doing nature photography, I
> have had to carry the body part with its batteries if quiet is required.

Greg,

If you don't want the winder to cock the shutter, all you have to do is to
pull away the manual lever from the body, and to cock manually.
As long you don't push the lever against the camera body and
don't push on the shutter release it will not cock and advance the film.
Really useful, specially because the grip is much better with the 
winder when using big lenses.

Lucien