Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sorry but i have no additional details on the minolta winders. but historically the minolta xd 11 has it all over the r4 with its retrograde exposure sysstem. the xd 11 was a splendid camera, the first programmed slr, employing a then state of the art silicon cell. the copycat r4 has cds cell alresady obsolete(much less sensistive & has to be conditioned to read correctly much of the time). hope this is of help.rof > From: Bmceowen@aol.com > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:34:11 EDT > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Vintage M observations > > > In a message dated 7/4/00 6:46:43 PM, rof@mac.com writes: > > << there is also the incredible fact that the r3 and > r4 were actually discontinued > minolta bodies --they even accept the cheap minolta winders. >> > > I knew that the R3 was an XE-7 and the R4 was an MD-11 but I did not know > they took the Minolta winder. Is this true? Surely this could only apply to > the R4 as the XE-7 did not accept a winder as I recall . . . BTW, one of the > few reasons I have considered buying an R4 or R5 is that I really liked the > MD-11. I can think of few things nicer than that body with Leica glass . . . > > Bob (curious about the R world) McEowen