Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those of us that use Tom's winder, never pull the wind lever out for anything other than loading film. There are lots of cameras out there that switch-on the camera with the wind lever. But thankfully, not on my M6 or R cameras. My R cameras all have winders permanently attached. Jim At 10:38 AM 10/5/98 -0400, you wrote: > > Interesting to note, after all the jury-rigging >we've done to circumvent this problem, I picked up a friend's Nikon FM2n >this morning, and with the wind lever pressed in to the body, the shutter >button/meter switch is securely locked; pop the winder out to the ready >position and it unlocks. No electronics in that camera except the meter, >either and it's only bigger than the Leica in the lensmount/prism area. >I doubt if the mechanics of such a locking mechanism would be all that >difficult for Leica to have engineered. Perhaps that will be part of the >M6TTLSL (for Shutter Lock) which they are secretly planning to introduce >at PMA and discontinue the M6TTL : ) > >Nigel Jim Brick (650) 470-1132 http://www.photoaccess.com