Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] e-mail problem
From: Bill Carson <poppie@fidalgo.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:18:24 -0700

Hi Paul:  I'm looking right at my Nikon F-5 and it seems to have a rewind crank on
the upper right side??  Maybe you are referring to another F-5 of some kind?
Regards,  Bill Carson

Paul Chefurka wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:10:22 -0400, Jonathan Borden
> <jborden@mediaone.net> wrote:
>
> >> We won't go into why I
> >> should have to reboot a commercial OS periodically - it's as
> >> though I had to
> >> take the film out of my M6 every once in a while and then reload
> >> it to make
> >> the meter start working again.  Grumble.
> >>
> >> Paul Chefurka
> >
> >
> >       Well you do, I mean you wouldn't leave film or a battery in an M6 for 10
> >years, would you?
>
> Close, but the issue is having to take drastic action to fix a problem
> that shouldn't exist in the first place.  Harrison McClary has already
> documented an example of this with an R8, so even Leicas aren't
> immune.  I do change the oil in my car without complaint, though.
>
> >On the other hand, if
> >the 90 APO ASPH was disposable there might not be a rewind crank on the M6
>
> I suppose even that lens can be considered  disposable if you're Bill
> Gates and have enough people like me buying your flaky OS.
> BTW, I've noticed there's no rewind crank on the F5.  And the
> implication of that is of course...
>
> Paul Chefurka