Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:24:05 -0600
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Gene,

Thanks. I don't have a DMR (yet) but I do have an R8 and I might be in
the market.

Jim

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:45 PM,  <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I sent it in to Leica NJ. ?They did the update there in NJ. ?It was a free 
> update, what they called a warranty repair (My R8 was well out of warranty 
> and so was the DMR, as I bought it used while in Germany). ?do not know 
> what they did exactly, but it took about 2 weeks round trip for this 
> service. ?Not a download from their website, unfortunately.
>
> Cheers,
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Laird" <digiratidoc at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 12:32:59 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?
>
> Gene,
>
> What was involved in the firmware update for the R8 to use the DMR?
> Did you have to send it to Leica or was it a simple download?
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:18 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
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton) ([Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?)
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