Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 29-05-1998 23:36 Lucien wrote: >I always put the strap between my hand and the camera body >when I grab the camera. > >The Motor-Drive will solve the problem in the future. Yes, Lucien, that's how I am doing it also. But it still feels somewhat in the wrong place. Could you explain how the motor-drive will change that? I thought that the strap lug will remain at the same place as it won't be replaced by the motor-drive's handgrip. Now that we are at it: there is one minor nuisance with the R8, that is the fact that the film counter is not "live". By that I mean you have to trip the shutter to see at what view number you are (and this also activates the meter, so you are wasting battery if you only want to check the film advance). Not so with Nikon, where the film counter is always visible on the LCD screen, even if the camera is turned off. That would be something for the engineers to remember for the next Leica R body. I have also told this at the people of Leica's Belgian distributor, hoping they will pass on the message. Apart from this, you would be very hard pressed to find any major nuisances with this camera. Pascal - -------------------------------------------------------- Macintosh PowerBook G3 - it eats Pentium notebooks for lunch - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>