Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V2 #138
From: "christian becker" <chribeck@orion.rz.mdc-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:43:58 +0100
 
 
> >P.S. Don't you think Leica missed a trick by not calling the R8 the
> "Leicaflex
> >3"? It is really more closely related to the Leicaflexes than to the R
> series,
> >all of which were based on Japanese Minolta bodies. 

Definitely right! Even the design is somewhat nearer to the Leicaflex than to 
the R line. Calling it Leicaflex SL3 would have been quite a symbol.