Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 question
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:52:50 +0300

Julian Koplen wrote:

> My DOF lever clicks up freely without any apparent damping.  Maybe
> mine is
> missing something?  ARRRGGGH. I will banish it from my mind.  It takes
> good
> pictures, when I point it at the right things.

With a DOF preview like that, it's clearly broken. No matter what good
pics it takes.

:-))

Bernard

>
>
> Julian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@euronet.be>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 1:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 question
>
> Julian,
>
> It is not so much a delay but a feeling that the movement is damped,
> rather
> than
> the hard click I get with other cameras. It occurs even without any
> lens
> mounted, so it is a feature of the body. I understand from others that
> this
> is
> normal.
>
> Nathan
>
> Julian Koplen wrote:
>
> > On my R8 the DOF lever springs back up immediately when I release
> it.  The
> > full viewfinder brightness is appreciated a bare fraction of a
> second
> after
> > I hear the lever hit its upper click-stop.  In other words it seems
> that
> the
> > diaphragm cannot open quite as fast as that lever can spring back
> up, but
> it
> > is in the process of doing so. I do not get a feeling of unnatural
> slowness.
> > Are you saying there is a delay in the springback of the lever
> itself?
> >
> > Regards.........Julian
>
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Overijse, Belgium
>
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