Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know about 1972, but the Olympus OM-2 had an electro-controlled, horizontal, cloth shutter in 1975, although it still retained the moving needle finder readout. The LED's had yet to hit the scene, which came somewhere around 1978 when the Canon A-1 was introduced. Skip > >Subject: RE: [Leica] M motor drive/winder/RabidWinder > From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> > Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:06:33 -0400 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >At 12:09 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, bdcolen wrote: >>M6= 1954 camera with 1963 metering system >>M7= 1954 camera with 1972 metering system > >I think you missed this one by a decade. The M7 is more like a 1982 >metering system. I think the 1970's auto cameras still had the needle that >moved up and down to display the shutter speed the auto meter >selected. The M7 has caught up to the Canon AE-1 or Nikon FE/F3, with the >exception of program more. > >Regards, > >Robert > > >>:-) >> >>B. D. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of John >>Collier >>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:06 AM >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: Re: [Leica] M motor drive/winder/RabidWinder >> >> >>If by "burst" you mean continuous, then the M-Motor will do about three >>frames a second. I think the original poster used burst to imply five >>frames a second or more. The M6 was not designed in the eighties. It is >>a simple adaption of the M3. The M cameras were never designed with a >>Motor/Winder in mind. They need an electronic connection between the >>M/W and the body. As with all purely mechanical M/Ws (including Nikon) >>you have to be careful when using the slow shutter speeds. >> >>John Collier >> >>On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote: >> >> > Isn't it embarrassing to see that a 30 year old Nikon and it's ancient >> >> > motor drive pushing an SLR with it's flip-flop mirror can do a burst >> > of exposures; and a newly designed Leica Motor cannot? The Leica M-6 >> > was designed looong after the Nikon F2 and it's motor drive was >> > obsolete. >> > >> > Even the old clockwork MOOLY could do burst exposures. >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html