Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have heard many people complain about the winders. But, when an M4-2 winder is properly adjusted, it is almost silent in operation. I was going to buy a winder at the same time as I sent one of my M4-2's in for CLA to Leica. My friend suggessted that I let Leica USA have the winder at the same time. When I got the camera and winder back, I immediately loaded film into the camera and went out to do some street shooting. There was a little band playing on a street corner, I began taking pictures of them and thought something was wrong with the camera as I could not hear it operate. But, it was working perfectly. I had a M4-2 and M4-P, The one that had been tweaked by Leica worked fine on one body and would not physically fit on the other body. The other winder fit on both bodies and was very noisy on one and worked alright on the other. So I have said all of this to say the winders, IMHO are not really interchangable. And to really work well they need to be set up to work with a particular camera. John