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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: MD-12
From: "Rob Studdert" <audiob@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:43:42 +1000

On 1 Mar 99, at 19:05, Eric Welch wrote:

> At 10:44 AM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >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, it can't touch a Pentax LX and motor. Boy is that thing a freight
> train!
> 

Eric,

It may be luck of the draw with the Motor Drive LX, I have two, one is silky 
smooth and not so noisy but the other, well, maybe freight train is a bit 
heavy but it does rattle... :-)

Cheers,

Rob Studdert
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