Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] MD-12
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:46:31 +0100

Sorry Donal, 

you're damn wrong!
The MD1/2 for the F2 is much louder than the MD4!
We will have to ask Walt, but I also think that the F36 for the F was much
louder than all of the motors we mentionned!!
Thib.


At 10:44 01/03/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Greg Locke wrote:
>> Nikon got it right with
>> the F3/MD-4 combination so I don't know why it was so hard to make the
>> FM/MD-12 work
>
>Had a model one time purr, "Oooohh, I just love the sound of that
>camera, it just turns me on."  
>
>No, we weren't doing that kind of photography, and I'm not telling what
>happened later.
>
>The F3 has to get the award for loudest motor.  Even beats the
>M-winder.  Perfect for dubbing into movies showing photographer using an
>M with no motor.
>
>donal
>-- 
>Donal Philby
>San Diego
>http://www.donalphilby.com
>
>