Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] motordrive moron
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:39:51 -0800

Unfortunately, the Leica motor for M cameras has a terrible, massive 
design flaw: It bangs the shutter release into your finger for each 
frame it shoots, jostling the whole camera/lens around in your hand.  
Ok, so someone said that it's a result of the M having a mechanical 
shutter release (or something like that) but don't the Nikon F and F2 
have mechanical shutter releases too?  I can't remember the motors for 
*those* cameras banging the crap out of your shutter finger...

Leica get a number of things just right.  And then they get some things 
just clearly plain wrong.  But expect us to be too enthrawled by the 
red dot to notice.  Or something.

M.

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