Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:17 AM 3/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >I enjoyed using an R-E for about a year. Absolutely fine. But I heard so >many times, "Oh, you've got the stripped-down version." Always that term, >"stripped-down" -- as if Leica left off the take-up spool and shutter >curtain to cut down on costs. Finally I couldn't take it any longer, so >traded it for an R3 in 24-karat gold plate. :-) Good one. In fact, in Rogliatti's book "Leica the First 70 Years" he says that unlike earlier cameras that Leica made to be "economy" models, the RE was not made in the same sense. It was just left simpler than the R5 for those people who didn't want shutter priority and program modes. In all other ways, it's identical to the R5. Is the M6 a stripped down model? No! Neither is the RE. I don't want one simply because the R7 has more features I like, and the R8's better than the R7. I have an R4sP because it was cheap. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I disagree with unanimity.