Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [Leica] flash (and now R-bodies talk)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:30:01 -0500

At 06:37 PM 4/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Whatever happened to the R5?

It's not as advanced as the R7. Fill flash isn't nearly as good. But I'm 
sure it's a great camera like the R4sP and R7. It's just so in-between. I 
did use an RE once and was very impressed. It's the R5 without the program 
and shutter priority modes. So it's sure to be a good camera. But the R7 
and R8 as so much better!

BTW, the R7's mirror is better dampened. And Don Goldberg told me that the 
R7 is the first R camera to be built to professional standards of 
ruggedness. Especially the film advance mechanism. (Note: the SL(2)s are 
not R cameras).

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art?   - 
Rudyard Kipling