Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:00 PM 2/3/97 -0800, you wrote: >LUGnuts: > > >He will be giving presentations: > >March 25, Tuesday at ASMP/Colorado (Denver) Thanks. My son lives in Fort Collins--maybe an excuse to get out there. >He has been using the R8 for a couple months now and said it is simply the >finest camera he has ever owned. And that the only exposure errors it has >made is when he overroad the cameras' suggestions. And the the mirror >slap problem of the R7 has been solved. R8 hand holdable to lower shutter >speeds. This is all good news. I should point out that, at least if anecdotal evidence is put together with my experience, all the R cameras from R4 through R7 have a mirror slap problem. Indeed, I finally got an R6, not because of its manual-ness (is that a word?), but because the mirror lifter gave noticeably sharper results with macro shots. > >Donal Philby >San Diego> Charlie (considering becoming the artist known as MOI) Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU