Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Motor Drive R8
From: InfinityDT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:10:26 EDT

In a message dated 9/7/99 10:58:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dmorton@journalist.co.uk writes:

<< But the RTSIII is a pretty old design. I was really suggesting that the AX 
 is 1080g, the ST and RX are both around 800g, so with an R8 weighing in at  
 890g an R9 might be 890*(1080/800) or 1200g, which is pretty heavy! >>

The AX also has a built-in motor drive (faster than the R8 *winder*).  You 
must add the weight of the phantom R8 motor drive to the equation.