Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M motor drive/Now AE
From: Patrick Jelliffe <pbjbike@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:07:47 -0800 (PST)

Wasn't there a high end Kodak camera in the
1930's/40's with auto exposure?  Wonderful folding
design, few made, highly collectable. Anybody know?

Patrick


- --- Skip Williams <leica@skipwilliams.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
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