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Originally Posted by guy_mancuso
Ed all i can say is leica seemed to be more positive on being able to do it , whatever that means. Like words like piece of cake. Okay 3 beers later. ROTFLMAO
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Well I'd love to be completely wrong. I'm not a engineer but I do have great basic knowledge of how things like this work and from using the M8 for 5 months my above statement is what I see.
I guess the only way to really test this is to take the shutter completely out of the M8 and then fire it by jumping/shorting across the contacts that actually fire the shutter. If it opens and closes and then rewinds all by itself we have the answer. If it opens and closes and does not rewind then the rewind might be controlled by software or simply the rewind circuit isn't powered by the firing circuit.
No I'm not taking mine apart.
To Jamie
I totally agree that at a short distance away from the M8 the rewinding noise, and or the total shutter noise isn't that noticeable. I have done tests with the M8 against a M3 with both of them backed up against a wall and me about 5 feet away and although the M8 is slightly louder it isn't that much more compared to a M3. I could even hear the rewind mode but I did hear the shutter open and close. I guess it is the difference between cloth and steel.