Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M motor drive/winder/RabidWinder
From: Skip Williams <leica@skipwilliams.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:30:52 -0500

I don't know about 1972, but the Olympus OM-2 had an electro-controlled, horizontal, cloth shutter in 1975, although it still retained the moving needle finder readout.  The LED's had yet to hit the scene, which came somewhere around 1978 when the Canon A-1 was introduced.

Skip


>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] M motor drive/winder/RabidWinder
>   From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
>   Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:06:33 -0400
>     To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>
>At 12:09 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, bdcolen wrote:
>>M6= 1954 camera with 1963 metering system
>>M7= 1954 camera with 1972 metering system
>
>I think you missed this one by a decade.  The M7 is more like a 1982 
>metering system.  I think the 1970's auto cameras still had the needle that 
>moved up and down to display the shutter speed the auto meter 
>selected.  The M7 has caught up to the Canon AE-1 or Nikon FE/F3, with the 
>exception of program more.
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>
>
>>:-)
>>
>>B. D.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of John
>>Collier
>>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:06 AM
>>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] M motor drive/winder/RabidWinder
>>
>>
>>If by "burst" you mean continuous, then the M-Motor will do about three
>>frames a second. I think the original poster used burst to imply five
>>frames a second or more. The M6 was not designed in the eighties. It is
>>a simple adaption of the M3. The M cameras were never designed with a
>>Motor/Winder in mind. They need an electronic connection between the
>>M/W and the body.  As with all purely mechanical M/Ws (including Nikon)
>>you have to be careful when using the slow shutter speeds.
>>
>>John Collier
>>
>>On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>>
>> > Isn't it embarrassing to see that a 30 year old Nikon and it's ancient
>>
>> > motor drive pushing an SLR with it's flip-flop mirror can do a burst
>> > of exposures; and a newly designed Leica Motor cannot?  The Leica M-6
>> > was designed looong after the Nikon F2 and it's motor drive was
>> > obsolete.
>> >
>> > Even the old clockwork MOOLY could do burst exposures.
>>
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