Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sas mckeown's puts it there are 4 generations of r4s, the first three are loaded with electronic problems. mine had a cds cell(like all the first three generations ),the book says to avoid serial nos below 1.6000,000. the 4th version finally got a silcon cell years after i dumped mine. it also says leica only repairs these under its signature service which cost $235 in 96.i was discussing the r4 at introduction not after it was "fixed"? many years later. > From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: 5 Jul 2000 10:11:00 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Vintage M observations > > ralph fuerbringer wrote: > >> >> sorry but i have no additional details on the minolta winders. but >> historically the minolta xd 11 has it all over the r4 with its retrograde >> exposure sysstem. the xd 11 was a splendid camera, the first programmed >> slr, employing a then state of the art silicon cell. >> the copycat r4 has cds cell alresady obsolete(much less sensistive & has >> to be conditioned to read correctly much of the time). hope this is of help. >> rof > > This is clearly not helpful because the R4 has a silicon photo diode not a CdS > meter cell. > > Doug Herr > Sacramento > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > >