Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]User Surachai V. at UNESCAP4 is not defined Original text follows ---------------------------------------------- Received: from gatekeeper5.un.org by mail-in2.un.org (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) ; Wed, 11 Jun 97 12:40:29 EST Return-Path: <owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Received: by gatekeeper5.un.org; id AA033116580; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:29:40 -0400 Received: from mejac.palo-alto.ca.us(192.147.236.1) by gatekeeper5.un.org via smap (V3.1) id xma020596; Wed, 11 Jun 97 11:52:35 -0400 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA22380; Wed, 11 Jun 97 05:31:47 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA22360; Wed, 11 Jun 97 05:30:45 -0700 Received: from default (saturn.bnla.baynet.de [194.95.218.131]) by uranus.planet (8.7.5/8.7.3/FF-Nr3) with SMTP id OAA29255; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:31:22 +0200 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:28:41 +0300 X-Mailer: Virtual Access by Ashmount Research Ltd, http://www.ashmount.com Message-Id: <VA.00000035.01582fac@default> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Cc: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: Leica-Users List Digest V1 #504 From: Otto Braasch <otto.braasch@bnla.baynet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <9706110701.AA14750@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Donal wrote: > I remember talking to Luis Casteneda recently about Leica reliability > and he said he had bought three R7s when they came out, but decided to > use just one as much as possible and see how long it would last. > > Last count: 10,000 rolls without adjustment, repair or even cleaning. Donal, That 10,000 rolls figure on the R7 is most interesting. I would have had about 31 failures in total by then with my Contax RTS IIIs at their present rate. Is Luis Casteneda on e-mail or do you have his snail mail address? And do you know more about the way he travels and the environment he works in: rural countryside, town or desert? Regards, Otto