Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A 09:30 10/03/98 +0100, vous avez =E9crit : > > This is my history: > > I've recently bought a new R8 with a 80/200 f4 ROM=20 > Well, at the first shots the R8 in shutter priority mode > didn't work, and the TTL flash as well. > Ok, I went back to the dealer and he replaced me the body > and the lens at once > After a few days the new R8 (with a serial number 20,000 >units earlier > than the first one) > with lens arrived and I was very excited > to start again to use it. I opened the box, put the lens on > and..... My God it didn't work again, the shutter priority >and > the TTL flash didn't work +ACEAIQ- > Moreover, the display in the finder was not > in the marvellous soft green colour, but it was of a bad > yellow-green (acid green to be precise) and the diods were >so badly > illuminated that, when one of them was on, the sorrounding >ones were > slightly displayed, creating a very distracting efffect. > The R8, my new angel, crashed and burned. > Ok now, both the dealer and the Italian importer said me >that they > would have replaced >body and lens again, but now I don't trust the > R8 system anymore and I'm very very disappointed. > I'm a LEICA supporter but I don't want the electronic > problems let my angel fall down and crash.This damn, 5,000 >USD camera > (including lens and flash) collected a double fail and I've >received a > double uppercut. >What have I to do ? > What would you, guys, think in my clothes? > > When the R4 appeared in 1981, I met people who had many problems with that new body.=20 It seems to me that the same story is repeating again with the R8. ;-) > > > > > >