On 26 Oct 1998 07:12:52 GMT, cousineddie@worldnet.att.net wrote:

>What exactly do motor drives do besides allow for rapid fire?
>Sorry if I show some true stupidity here!

Besides the other good answers (DO read "real_angora"s post...),
I am left-eyed, and a motor frees me from having to completely
reset framing, etc. after each exposure (since I must move away
from the camera to operate the manual advance).