Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nicholas Ragovis wrote: > What, the Nikon F wasn't reliable enough for you? Cameras dropping from > helicopters and still working not impressive enough? Didn't the Japanese > sort of define their cameras with reliability? Isn't that how they managed > to step out of the "Made in Japan" means junk stereotype of the 1950s? If > anything, Leicas are not known as the world's most trouble free cameras.... > especially the R8. > ------------------------------------------------ Nicholas, you must have missed the comment:" The Pentax Spotmatic days are over". By this, I meant the whole era around this camera. This includes of course the Nikon-F battleship. It would also include Mamyas, Ricos and a few other makes around the same time. Also I said: "At first it was called Japanese crap. Then it was called Taiwanese crap" and so on. Inferring, that the japanese products where now considered a quality product. I never said that the Leica R8 was the most reliable camera ever. I don't really no if it is or if not. I was in during the whole post referring to the M6 and other M models Regards, Horst schmidt