Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, c'mon, my 13 year old Minolta 9000 has manual advance, and an optional motor drive that hums along at 5.5 fps. I agree with you, this seems like a poor excuse. Dan C. At 06:00 PM 03-10-98 +0200, Pascal (or Lucien ?) wrote: >The problem has to do with the fact that it is apparently very difficult >to put a high speed (4 frames per second) drive on a camera which has >also a manual film advance lever. This problem is much more important >than with the winder (only 2 fps) because the motor needs much more >"pulling" power. >I reminded them of the Nikon FM mechanical body with manual film advance >I purchased back in 1982 (with Nikon MD12 motordrive up to 3.5 fps), so I >don't know what is really going on. The only comment was that they feel >very sorry about it. >This sad fact will, of