[Leica] R reliability

[Dave Yoder <leica@home.com>]

Honestly, I don't expect my cameras to be trouble free. I bought into the
R's expecting perhaps a bit repair servicing than brand X, but that's the
price to pay for the lenses. Kinda like Land Rover owners. Gotta love
them, but they have their quirks too. I started with Olympus--an OM4-T, an
OM-3 and something else I can't remember. Liked them too, but they had
lots of problems. Nothing catastrophic, but enough to bother me a bit. I
can tell though that the craftsmanship of the Leica bodies are better than
Olympus OM. So I'm optimistic.

So far I'm really happy with the system.

Thanks for all the info from everyone,

Dave Y.

Jay Coleman wrote:

> >>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