Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Leica (then Leitz) company soon abandonned all hope repairing the R-3 camera. I heard from a distributor that instead they discretely proposed a newer model as a replacement at a bargain price. I preferred to keep my 2 Leicaflex SL wich still work perfectly. One day they made a pilgrimage to Solms and came back like new. It's only recently that I had the opportunity to test an R-8 wich was like new, I bought it immediately. Another R-8 at the same symbolic price in the same condition and a winder plus a zoom came soon afterwards. I had some of my Leicaflex and R lenses modified thanks to a friend who was a former Leitz technician and at a fair price. I don't despise the M-9 because I bought one. It's a wonderful machine. At the contrary it gave me the occasion to buy these 2 R-8's at a symbolic price. It's like a Stealth bomber it is solid, you can go a long way and do a lot of things with it. You can even put a digital back on it. Cedric Agie cedric.agie at gmail.com 2013/1/14 George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>: > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Its hard to verbalize just how offensive this is to me > > It actually seems very easy for you to verbalize Mark; > as you do it as regular as clock work. > > One may even argue that you're obsessed > with human beings who buy and sell cameras; > even if they "use them" often and very well. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information