Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] would you prefer a digital m with a manual shutter winder?
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:05:32 -0500
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The Epson RD-1, a digital rangefinder made by Epson using a Cosina
Voigtlander body, had a manual wind lever to cock the shutter.

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On 11/8/14, 12:57 PM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

>kyle cassidy wrote:
>
>>>>
>The M9, i?ve noticed, is pretty darn noisy while cocking the shutter and,
>also, pretty dang slow. Which makes me wonder why they didn?t just leave
>the thumb advance on there and let me wind it myself.
><<<
>
>With the R8/DMR I like the option of pulling the winding lever out to the
>'ready' position for quiet mode / thumb advance or leaving it flush with
>the body for automatic.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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