Re: [Leica] SLR choice

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

This Bud, is for you!
Thanks for the clarification!
The reason the K-1000 was discontinue was that even being assembled in
China, they were losing $5 a copy to the dealers cost the last year it was
sold, according to the Pentax man who was at the store for once of out
special event sales.
Sad, too, that the perceived value of a really decent camera doesn't allow
for it to be sold at a price where the maker can make a profit and survive!
I know mechanical cameras are more expensive- a R6.2 is a lot more than an
R8 on the used market, but the reliability and independance from batteries
is a real asset.
Luckily, Sherry assures me that my SLs will last another twenty years at
least, so they'll be around at least as long as I'm able to pick up a camera
and push the shutter button!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] SLR choice


> 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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>
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