Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R4
From: inyoung@jps.net
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:02:46

Hi,

 Dan is absolutely right.  I have had the similar experience to Dan's with
the several R4's and R3's.

Regards,
David

At 06:04 PM 9/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Dominique-
>You paint with a broad brush! I had an R4 and it was a good camera- I did
>make sure, however, that the one I got had a serial number higher than
>1600000. There was some discussion earlier in the group about the earlier R4
>cameras having reliability problems, and this is why those with the higher
>serial numbers seem to go for more money. I had an R3 for a couple of years,
>as well,  and it was a later production model. I found that it was reliable,
>too, though I had to replace the foam around the cassette window.
>Dan
>dwpost@msn.com
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