Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8: angel crashed and burned
From: Dominique PELLISSIER <pelliss@droit-eco.u-nancy.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:22:20 +0100

A 09:30 10/03/98 +0100, vous avez =E9crit :
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> This is my history:
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> I've recently bought a new R8 with a 80/200 f4 ROM=20
> Well, at the first shots the R8 in shutter priority mode
> didn't work, and the TTL flash as well.
> Ok, I went back to the dealer and he replaced me the body
> and the lens at once
> After a few days the new R8 (with a serial number 20,000
>units earlier
> than the first one)
> with lens arrived  and I was very excited
> to start again to use it. I opened the box, put the lens on
> and..... My God it didn't work again, the shutter priority
>and
> the TTL flash didn't work +ACEAIQ-
> Moreover, the display in the finder  was not
> in the marvellous soft green colour, but it was of a bad
> yellow-green (acid green to be precise) and the diods were
>so badly
> illuminated that, when one of them was on, the sorrounding
>ones were
> slightly displayed, creating a very distracting efffect.
> The R8, my new angel, crashed and burned.
> Ok now, both the dealer and the Italian importer said me
>that they
> would have replaced
>body and lens again, but now I don't trust the
> R8 system anymore and I'm very very disappointed.
>  I'm a LEICA supporter but I don't want the electronic
> problems let my angel fall down and crash.This damn, 5,000
>USD camera
> (including lens and flash) collected a double fail and I've
>received a
> double uppercut.
>What have I to do ?
> What would you, guys, think in my clothes?
>
> When the R4 appeared in 1981, I met people who had many problems with
that new body.=20
It seems to me that the same story is repeating again with the R8.
;-)

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