Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All, From the learning from your mistakes department... Went out to shoot this afternoon with an 8 month old R8, motor drive, 2x apo extender (non-ROM) and the 70-180 ROM. Out on the boat, I pull the camera up to my eye and, YIKES! What's going on with the display? Frame number is blinking. Under/over exposure bars are lit up, in a strange way. Everything is out of whack, display wise. I look on the back of the camera and the frame number is blinking alternately with the DX indicator. Are the electronics fried? Is the drive's nicads blowing out the system? Something wacky with the extender/ROM zoom electronic interface? No change in the camera's controls seem to have any effect. Battery in and out, no effect. Motor on and off the camera, no effect. Camera seems to fire, but without a meter I'm guessing (which can be fun, but I'm not in the mood today, no patience). I give up, and we go back to the house. As I'm putting the camera away I notice that the automatic bracketing lever has been bumped to +/-1. The "wacky" displays were not wacky at all, it seems, just informing me of what the camera was set to do via the motor's controls. So next time you get bizarre readouts while using your R8 motor, check the bracketing controls on the motor, at the very least. You'll be wiser, as I am now, if you do. David W. Almy Annapolis