Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > >> > >>-- > >>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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html