Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Stasys, Well it is 27 F today, unfortunately the warm weather has left us for the next 4 months. ;( It will get colder as winter moves in on us. Nice to hear Leica NJ did the battery refurb for you at a decent price. The guy who did my cables and refurbs batteries is Michael Bass. He does a pretty good job, and is relatively fast. I think he also did some batteries for Doug Herr. Anyway here is his e-mail: MichaelBass at charter.net I need to send in my R8DMR to Leica one of these days, as the motor does not completely wind the shutter every now and then, I think a capacitor in the motor is getting weak. This is not a big deal, but an annoyance, since I have to push the shutter button a second time to get it properly wound. In the meantime, I have bought a Nikon D700 as a second body and am using some old manual focus lenses from way back when the Nikon F was their current camera. I have also 2 auto focus lenses for it. but I prefer using the R8DMR. Enjoy that warm weather. Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stasys Petravicius" <stasys1 at cox.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:28:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days? Gene - Hope it's not too cold in Iowa- here is it about 50 F this morning. I turned in my DMR battery to Leica NJ and they sold me a rebuilt one for $150- and not their normal $190 price since I had the R9/DMR CLA'd. I have 2 R8's with motor drives and both batteries are shot. What is the name/email of the guy who redid a battery for you? Leica NJ wants $285 to have that battery refurbished in Germany. Best, Stasys On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:18 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information