That dangfounded non-locking dial on the R8 can really make you go nuts. After borrowing a friend's R8, I wound up draining a set of his batteries by forgetting to set the dial to off while the camera was in the bag; he also had on of those softy thingys. I'd also forget to turn it on when drawing the camera out of the bag to take an impulsive shot. I had wondered what the advancement of the R9 was and now I knew it was the locking knobitis thing. Gary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr/lrflex.htm Archives are at: www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/