Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] batteries
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:18:32 -0700
 
Doug McLernon wrote:
> 
> Someone wrote ">>I'm just put off by the R8's reliance on batteries"
> I see this all the time as a reason not to own an M6, R series, G series
> Contax, etc. The last car I owned that came with a starting crank was a 1947
> MG TC :^)
> Regards,
> Doug

Perhaps we should differentiate between cameras with meters that we
could ignore which rely on batteries and cameras with shutters and more
that come to a grinding halt when the batteries die.
Mark Rabiner