Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:46 PM 7/24/00 +1000, Miro Jurcevic wrote: >If there was a popular SLR Leica of this era ..... would it be the R8 or R7. >I find qualities in both cameras that are practical. > The R7 is the most trouble free electronic R camera Leica has made. It's the last of a model type and basically all of the bugs were worked out and the build process, by that time, was flawless as well. The R8 is a completely different camera and got off to a very rocky start. Many many problems. Like any new design. But things have smoothed out and the R8 is now considered a reasonably trouble free camera. There is not enough history yet to state that it is completely trouble free. The R8 has many advances over the R7 that are useful. One in particular that is nice is that all modes of exposure control work in all modes of camera operation. You are not limited to just spot metering in manual mode like the R7, etc. And the R8 has a built-in flash meter, matrix metering, etc... Go to the Leica web site to see all of the features. Jim