Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] speed of leica lenses & shutter speed
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:38:18 -0800

Interesting...I will have to try it out!

At 09:42 PM 1/22/98 -0600, Richard W. Hemingway wrote:
>Francesco,
>
> >The R8 does have that nice mirror lock-up feature though, but I have 
>>never
>>tried
>>it handheld yet......does anyone use it that way?
>
>Yes, when I had my R8  it was one of the things that I really liked.
>Slight push, mirror up - another slight push and take the picture -
>quietest and best shutter I have seen on a camera.  I have taken low
>light pictures down to 1/4 s as well as I have gotten with the m6. 
>Didn't try it down to 1 s, although I have gotten usable pictures with
>the M6.
>
>Dick Hemingway
>Norman, OK 
> 


Francesco Sanfilippo,
Five Senses Productions
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