Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] An R series question
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Thu Jun 17 13:42:17 2004

Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca> wrote:

> A nice 180 f2 lens just landed in my lap so I guess I need a R body to make
> it work.

that could hurt!

> What was the best R body leica made and which is the ones to stay away 
> from.
>
> ..and I'm not really interested in the R8/9 bodies.

The simple answer is the Leicaflex SL or SL2 but if you want a bigger 
feature set, the general rule is that newer is better.  If you want 
electronic, the R7 is the answer.  Mechanical, it's the R6.2.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com