Re: Leica R4

[wilcox@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Ken Wilcox)]

Stefan,

I've noting against R cameras (my wife has an RE and I have an R3 Safari on
lay away) but I take lots of macro photos with my M6 and other M and LTM
bodies. I use a Visoflex and either the universal focus mount or bellows II
with the 65 f3.5 Elmar macro lens. It is a great combination and perhaps
less expensive than the $750 you mentioned.

Old camera manuals are available from a number of places including
craigcamera.com.

Cheers!

kw


>Hello!
>
>My name is Stefan and I am new to this group. Since a while I am a
>member of the Leica User digest group, which I find is a good way of
>getting information about Leica cameras and other things. But I want to
>take more active part in the discussions so therefore I have decided to
>join the Leica User group.
>
>My main camera is a Leica M6 with a couple of lenses, but now I am
>considering to buy a Leica reflex camera, because I would like to take
>macro-pictures (with a Macro-Elmarit-R 1:2.8/60). Since I cannot afford
>a Leica R7 or R8 the next choice for me is the Leica R4 (of course I
>prefer the R5 but it is a little bit more expensive).
>
>I can get a R4 with serial nr 1607xxx for about 750USD, but I am not
>sure it works as it should do. As I understand it the time scale on the
>right side in the viewfinder should only show the times between 1/15th
>and 1/1000th in the Program-selection, but on this camera all the times
>are shown, from 1 sec to 1/1000th sec. Does anyone of you know if there
>are some variations of the R4, so that it could be right that the camera
>should show all the times in the P-selection?
>
>My second question is: Is it possible to find any user manuals for this
>camera? It would be nice to know exactly how it works. I contacted the
>Leica agency here, but they could not help me.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>/Stefan

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