Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>I thought the reliability problems were pretty much resolved with the >>introduction of the R5 and I was wondering if you or anyone knew of >>evidence or conventional wisdom otherwise. >>I recently got an R5 as a back up to my R6.2 and R8, and since then it's >>become my body of choice, partly because the shutter release seems to be >>the fastest of the R4-7's. >>Just curious, really, but I'd like to know if there have been widespread >>problems. It's natural that the R7 should be more reliable than the R5, but >>I'd like to know if there were problems anything like on the scale of the R4's. Dave: I am not aware of problems on the scale of the R4. But I have never owned an R4. I did have problems with all R5, R6 and R7. If yours is working fine, though, I wouldn't worry about it. Jay