Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] R4...can you turn this thing off?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 16:57:53 2007

Don,

Without the batteries, it is just a paper weight.  Why would you want to do 
this?

Gene

-------------- Original message from "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>: 
-------------- 


> 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 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 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Don 
> don.dory@gmail.com 
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