Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V10 #36
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:17:34 -0400

My new minolta 9 works just fine with my old Elinchrom 11s.

Dan C.

At 12:17 PM 25-07-99 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi Walt,
>
>I agree that the plastic junk won't work with Speedotrons.  But how does
this 
>explain the R8's, F5's and EOS 1n's?  I use Speedos and to my dismay, fried 
>the circuit to my R8 twice, the second time after buying a voltage filter.  
>The second time I fried the circuit because I plugged the PC into the camera 
>with the flash power on.  I find it inexcusable that "pro" cameras can't be 
>used on a Speedotron.  Why can't the manufactures build a camera to tolerate 
>higher line voltages or build the line filter into the circuitry?  The 
>solution for me was to dump the R8 and go back to the R7.
>
>Bill Rosauer
>
>