Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Backup Camera
From: Doug Herr <merlin@flyingemu.com>
Date: 14 Jan 2001 07:24:54 -0800

Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
> I always have a backup Leica available on a trip, "just in case"... I use
> a
> Leica CL as the backup for my M6....it stays in my luggage until needed.
> The most I can miss is 1 day of shooting...  It does not require a great
> outlay of cost to purchase, and includes a meter.
>
> What about others?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>

From my perspecitve as an R user, backup SL bodies are not too expensive, and if I consider the cost of lost opportunites, the SL starts to look dirt cheap.  When the time in transit and at the repair shop is considered, not having a backup (or two) looks downright foolish.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
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