Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Power switch
From: jimbrick@photoaccess.com (Jim Brick)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 10:00:30 -0700

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
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