Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] SLR choice
From: Jay Coleman <jcoleman@interport.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 05:11:32 -0400

>>I thought the reliability problems were pretty much resolved with the
>>introduction of the R5 and I was wondering if you or anyone knew of
>>evidence or conventional wisdom otherwise.

>>I recently got an R5 as a back up to my R6.2 and R8, and since then
it's
>>become my body of choice, partly because the shutter release seems to
be
>>the fastest of the R4-7's.

>>Just curious, really, but I'd like to know if there have been
widespread
>>problems. It's natural that the R7 should be more reliable than the
R5, but
>>I'd like to know if there were problems anything like on the scale of
the
R4's.

Dave:

I am not aware of problems on the scale of the R4.  But I have never
owned an R4.  I did have problems with all R5, R6 and R7.  If yours is
working fine, though, I wouldn't worry about it.

Jay