Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] leica R-5
From: "Mark Kronquist" <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:42:04 -0700

Bought mine new from a dying dealer back in '95 for $500. Works great
weaknesses of the breed, the notched take up spool things (inherited from
Minolta) tend to break off. Also the depth of field preview lever was broken
(off) on a couple examples I have seen. Mine is fine,,,just weak spots
nopticed on tohers

Mark
- -----Original Message-----
From: Roger J. Hart <servant@sunset.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 9:09 AM
Subject: [Leica] leica R-5


>Hello, leica enthusiasts! : )
>
>I just bought a leica R-5 from a ebay auction, and had some questions:
>
>1.) What are the strengths/weaknesses, etc. that I should know about?
>
>2.) What technical resources on the net are there for leica photographic
>equipment?
>
>3.) Any care and feeding instructions beyond the basics?
>
>4.) Any interesting information about the R-5 you'd like to share?
>
>Thanks in advance for any and all information and comments... : )
>
>Roger...
>