Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]well Mark, we all have our favorite cameras, and that is fine. but the public seems to disagree with your view of the R8, otherwise it would be selling better. since you like it so much, have you bought one ? At PMA, IF Leica had any R display at all, I didn't see it. I was all M and Digilux. Stephen Mark Rabiner wrote: > Stephen Gandy wrote: > > > > the R8 is unfortunately a sales disaster for Leica. > > > > If you buy one, buy used and save the bucks. > > > > yes, it is a fine manual focus camera, but the body does not measure up > > from the best from Nikon, Canon, Pentax, and Minolta. > > > > the glass is another matter, wonderful, like the M. > > > > Stephen > > > > Right!? the body does not measure up from the best from Nikon, Canon, > Pentax, and Minolta. > Which Nikon, Canon, Pentax, and Minolta body am i going to buy before i > buy an R8? > None. > > I think its design is sublime. And certainly Leica can out make a body > from Nikon, Canon, Pentax, and Minolta. > And does so with the R8. And innovative and amazing camera. > Leica took a chance and stuck their necks out and the market chopped it > right off. > > When you get bigger in size the public is not going to go for it in droves. > That was their big problem. > Early problems in QC did the trick just as much. > They need to retain this body for connoisseurs and professionals and > make a second back up smaller body to replace the recently discontinued > R6.2 for the masses. With a built in micromotor advance. A Leica Aria. > (Not swan song) > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html