Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/03

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Subject: Re: R8 Failure Rates
From: dannyg1@IDT.NET (Danny Gonzalez)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 06:43:05 -0400 (EDT)

Otto,

Your luck with the RTS3's has been bad and I'm sure Blake regrets it badly.
A few questions if I may:

Have you had consistent failures among all of your bodies?
Is there not one that hasn't required a repair?
What are the most frequently recurring problems?
Do you have a list somewhere of all the problems you've had?
Hasn't Blake replaced at least one of your cameras with a new one yet?
Any complaints about final image quality?
Lenses to avoid?

Danny

>RTS III figures for 3 + 1/4 years (1994-1996 + 1/4 of 1997):
>Bodies in use year over: 4
>Rolls exposed, total: 6,130
>Rolls exposed per camera, average: 1,532.5
>Failures sent to shop for repair: 19
>MRBF, average: 322.6 (MRBF = mean rolls between failure).