Re: [Leica] SLR choice

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

Dan,
I believe the R6.2 has a vertical running shutter that's different from
those on the Leicaflexes.

I've read that the SL/2 cost Leitz more to manufacture than they were
getting for it.  All of the R cameras are cheaper to make (I'll include even
the R8).

Although I have probably used my SL-2 more than the other bodies since I
bought it, I'm finding that I have a tendency to grab the SL out of the bag
more and more.

I don't think anyone can really evaluate an SLR until they've looked through
the viewfinder of an SL.

BTW, an SL User's Group sounds good.   Maybe we'll let IIIf Red Dial and M3
users on it as well:-)

Bud
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Post <dwpost@email.msn.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] SLR choice


> Bud!
> I would suggest an SL User Group, but there are dibs on the SLUG
designation
> already! I think that if I ever modernised, it would be to the R6.2... I
am
> assuming (always dangerous!) that the R6.2 has the same type shutter
> mechanism as the SL and SL2 ( as Marc would say, 'why mess with
> perfection...?')
> That is, I thought the R6.2 was made for all us retro guys who like the
SL!
> Almost the SLR equivalent of the M cameras, at least for me, and I really
> feel that Leica might have snagged a more significant market share had
they
> continued the SL or SL2 as an entry level R camera, and kept up the
> production like Pentax did with the K-1000.
> Maybe wishful thinking, but the SL is as fully capable of taking excellent
> photographs as anything that replaced it, in my opinion... of course, I
> haven't had an R8 yet, but the SL has never failed to deliver good
negatives
> under some pretty trying conditions!
> Dan

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