Who thought up the motor Drive?

[@iaindickie9648]

I love motordrives, some happy 1970's and 80's memories for me right there. Thanks for doing the video. I have an MD4 motordrive for my Nikon F3. And with the dedicated SB16A flashgun you can apparently take shots at the MD4's 4.5 frames a second and all the frames will still be properly flash exposed. Although I haven't actually tried it yet.

[@milo5507]

Motor drives are a MUST!

[@davidgrandy4681]

Back in the day (circa 1976) the very first camera I ever saw with a motor drive was a Topcon SuperDM. The F had one but I hadn't seen one until much later. Although some motodrives would rewind the film in truth the winder was just a slow motordrive, no more and no less. A friend bought a used Canon "winder" for his original F1 and it was 1.5 to 2 frames a second: i.e a dog. I had the same Nikon F2 camera with the MD-3 motor drive you've shown, and with alkaline batteries I'd be lucky to get three frames a second. The F3's motor MD-3 without the Nikon ni-cad pack was about the same. What the motor/winder REALLY gave me was the ability to keep my eye to the viewfinder. I didn't have to move the camera away from my eye, wind the film, find the viewfinder again, refocus my eye and then be ready to shoot. I'd miss shots, it was as simple as that. Now I didn't. A photographer was asked once if a motor drive actually improved his photography and he said (and I think that this answer applies to EVERY advance in photography), "Well it means that I have a bad day less often."

[@gerarda9827]

WOW! Amazing how fast the last 2 Auto-drive from Nikon and Canon are. Long time ago, I bought a Minolta Winder G which would be 2 frame/sec for my X570. and shortly later, I got a Auto-drive 1 which can go to 3 1/2 frames/sec for my X700. I thought these motor drive were pretty fast then. However, I never really shot in continuous mode, the motor drive help me to have a better grip and save me from manual advance of the film.

[@MrGibsonguy335]

I was going to include my X-700 equipped with the MD-1, but I ran out of AA batteries.