Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have one of the early to mid production R8's and never had any problems with it and definitely no film scratching. I did have to have it updated, firmware wise so it would work correctly with the DMR. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 10:06:24 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days? Just one of those weird Leica things. Turn it around, why is the R9 selling for so much more than the R8, it is virtually the same camera. But, tangible reasons - the R9 has a lock button for the mode selector, and a lot of the electronic bugs in early R8's, and film scratching, were solved in the R9. So, the R9 is more reliable. Reliability is worth the extra bucks. Vick On 12/5/2011 10:38 PM, James Laird wrote: > Why is the R8 selling for so much less than the R9? Less than half the > cost at KEH anyway. > > Jim _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information