Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:43 PM 11/16/96 +0100, you wrote: >Hi all! > >My local dealer has a Leica R4 in near mint condition on sale. He wants >US $630 for it. Is this a fair price? How reliable is the Leica R4? > >Thanks, Bert > R4's had many problems with the electronics. I had 3 myself (the first one was repaired 5 times), and Leica never was able to give me one that worked for longer than a few months. They finally traded the last one for an R4SP, which was fine. Gossip has it that the very last R4's, identifiable by a red dot with raised lettering rather than a flat disc, were OK. I'd look for an R4SP, though (not an R4S, which had the same problems). Also, that price would be a bit high in the US, I think--R4's sell for much less than the later R cameras, mostly because of reliability problems. Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU