[Leica] R4...can you turn this thing off?

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

i think the desire is to not run the battery down.
the trick on the M6 (i learned the hard way) is to
rotate the dial to B.  inside my camera bag, i've
had the M6 button inadvertantly pressed and run down.

-rei



On Mar30 00:51, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:
> John,
> 
> The R4 and newer cameras are electronic, if you pull the battery it is a 
> paper weight.  Why would you want to defeat its meter and electronics?  If 
> you want a mechanical SLR, you need to go back about 20 years of camera 
> evolution.
> 
> Gene
> 
> -------------- Original message from "John O. Newell" 
> <john.o.newell@comcast.net>: -------------- 
> 
> 
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey