Tom, That is great news I bought the lens for portrait work and expected to = only be able to us the A mode. This really opens up new perspectives for = me with the wide availability of second hand lenses in good quality and = at extremely reasonable prices.=20 Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Schofield Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 9:33 AM To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LRflex] Re: A stupid question concerning ROM I don't know about the exdif infor on the dmr, but on a film dinosaur = R8, all the ROM contacts do is zoom a compatible flash head to the focal = length of the lens or set length on a zoom, besides making it inoperable = on pre-R8 cameras. Doesn't even effect the exposure algorithms as do = the Nikon D or Canon which ever systems. :-( Tom Schofield Tim Bedsted <Tim.Bedsted@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello everybody, I sent my mail from Finland and for some weird reason it was translated = =3D into gibberish, it was not Finnish although that can be difficult to =3D read as well=3D20 My question was simply: Hello, =3D20 Sorry to inconvenience you. I have so far only used Leica lenses with = =3D ROM contacts, but I just acquired a 90mm summicron with a 3-cam not ROM = =3D contacts I was under the impression that one cannot use the P and T mode = =3D on the R8/R9 cameras unless one has a lens with ROM contacts but my =3D "new" lens responds just fine. 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