Tom A
RFF Sponsor
Erik, if it didn't have the post, it was probably the M4-P version. It was a much better design.
I was at Midland when they were working on the design of the winder and I remember discussing it with them. They did admit that the design was not ideal, but as they were farming out the manufacturing to Eumig (remember them!) they were happy to live with the lesser quality and cost.
Over the decades I have had multiples of these winders and they do work. My first ones were M4-2 versions and on my M4-2's they had a tendency to expose a lot of blank frames if you were too quick on the release - it would advance without opening the shutter! The later M4-P/M6 and straight M-Winder designation ones were better. The motor has a lot of torque and you can feel it twisting and turning inside the case like a pulse or a heartbeat.
They were quite handy for aerial work, a M4P, the 75 or 90 and just bang away - sticking the lens out in the slipstream, through the side-window of Cessna 150. Dont use a hood - it will be ripped off! Somewhere over Ontario's escarpment landscape there is a early Noctilux hood for the first version 75f1.4 and also a hood for a 90f2.8 Elmarit!
I was at Midland when they were working on the design of the winder and I remember discussing it with them. They did admit that the design was not ideal, but as they were farming out the manufacturing to Eumig (remember them!) they were happy to live with the lesser quality and cost.
Over the decades I have had multiples of these winders and they do work. My first ones were M4-2 versions and on my M4-2's they had a tendency to expose a lot of blank frames if you were too quick on the release - it would advance without opening the shutter! The later M4-P/M6 and straight M-Winder designation ones were better. The motor has a lot of torque and you can feel it twisting and turning inside the case like a pulse or a heartbeat.
They were quite handy for aerial work, a M4P, the 75 or 90 and just bang away - sticking the lens out in the slipstream, through the side-window of Cessna 150. Dont use a hood - it will be ripped off! Somewhere over Ontario's escarpment landscape there is a early Noctilux hood for the first version 75f1.4 and also a hood for a 90f2.8 Elmarit!
