Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: > I think you have explained the purpose, so far, of the ROM. But it is not a > scam to have a lens ROM converted. There are a lot of photographers out > there that use a lot of flash and own Metz zoom flash units. So if they > want auto zoom, they get a ROM. Leica pretty much has to offer backward > compatible conversion. And it is not exactly simple to ROM a lens.<<<<<<<<< Hi Jim, Good point for photographers who use a great deal of flash, something I'd not considered simply because flash isn't a big part in my picture taking. Certainly when a photographer uses zoom lenses these days, as many do, the ROM /flash synchronization makes a more efficient tool of the flash than without. ted