Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] R4...can you turn this thing off?
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Wed Mar 28 18:19:47 2007
References: <032820071401.7175.460A75540009FCB300001C07220075033004040A990A02D201D202080106@comcast.net> <460A7EFE.8080801@numericable.fr> <20070328145848.GB26675@panix.com> <000101c77199$75d33760$6401a8c0@svctag4ZD7011> <9b678e0703281853p23913f5cocbbaeff4a81321c5@mail.gmail.com>

i never noticed it before but you are right, even in the X setting
the meter still turns on with pressure on the release.  at least on
M6 classics you can set to "B" so as not to drain your
battery when your camera is sitting in the bag with the a padded
compartment divider pressing down just so on the release.

the SL2Mot which i had pictured before is even more challenging;
so long as the lens is uncovered and light goes into the system,
the meter is on.  a lens cap is the only way to turn it off.

-rei

On Mar28 20:53, Don Dory wrote:
> John,
> Yes, take the batteries out. :)  But it does run on the cheap S76 batteries
> so what the heck.
> 
> On 3/28/07, John O. Newell <john.o.newell@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >So, can the meter and LEDs in an R4 be turned fully and definitively
> >OFF?  I
> >see nothing about being able to do so.  I had an R5 back in the 80s (a
> >great
> >camera, actually, or at least an extremely good one) and I seem to recall
> >that it couldn't be turned off completely, either?
> >
> >I'm not missing any hidden trick?
> >
> >Thanks
> >John

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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