Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, What are your thoughts on the Leica Motor Drive for the R8? I've been considering one for a while? Regards, Greg Ted Grant wrote: >Robert Schneider wrote: > >>>>Then there are those of us who have bought and used RapidWinders (twice >>>> >in > >>my case -- silly me) and decided that, in fact, they weren't the greatest >>thing since sliced bread. >> >>Now, the new Leica Motor-M . . . that I like.<<< >> > >Hi Rob, >Good thing there's horse races and slice bread is pretty good! As I'm just >the reverse to you.:-) > >Before I was graced with the RapidWinder I had bought three M motors and >sold them simply because the first one the camera had to be sent to Leica >Canada at the time to have the motor synched with one of the bodies. It >still nearly drove me crazy thunking and clunking everytime I fired it. > >Not to mention the constant vibration in the camera each exposure.....Sold >it! Swearing I'd never buy again. > >Then a short time later I was sucked in again with Leica promotion that this >was a new motor and smoothed out. Damn if it wasn't the same piece of >clunking thunking garbage.... sold it swearing never ever to buy again!!!! > >Short span memory cards in the head later. By now you're thinking, " the old >guy lost it a longtime ago if he buys a third one!" ;-) > >"Gee you should have this newest of motors as you're always commenting on >being a left eye shooter and it's too bad Leica didn't have a motor as >smooth as the R camera motor." Said the new Leica rep recently arrived from >Germany. > >Yep one more time and I couldn't get rid of it fast enough after two weeks >of everyday use, I can't stand the clunking and thunking like the camera is >going to shake itself apart sooner or later from the push rod pumping up and >down under the shutter release. > >So me old son it's the RapidWinder until hell and heaven freeze over, no >batteries, no clunking and thunking just, "click, swish, click, swish and >ready to shoot again after two frames. :-) > >It's the old thing, different strokes for different folks. ;-) > >ted >Ted Grant Photography Limited >www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html