Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Pondering an R8
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:17:17 -0500

I am not suggesting that the R8 sucks. I don't happen to like it,
ergonomically or otherwise, but that's me. I do think that, like Leica's
entire SLR line since the beginning, it is too little, too late, for too
much money. In this era, perched on the film/digital cusp, with autofocus,
auto everything - and the ability of the camera to do your wash as well
;-) - taken for granted, what is essentially a manual SLR can't just be
good, or even very good, at the R8 price point - it better be miraculously
spectacular; and that the R8 simply isn't



B. D.

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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of R. R.
Hirtler
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pondering an R8


Or, that they were taking such a bath on the R line
- - and their financial
statements certainly indicate that - that they could
only afford to keep one
body in the line.

B. D.
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True, the R8 has not come out of the gate as fast
as Leica may have hoped, I'm sure.  But this
would not be the first time a company had a
product which stumbled at first but them went on
to be a reliable and steady performer over the
long-term.

Believe me, if I felt the R8 flat out sucked, I would
say so. :-)  But I don't, so I won't.

- -Rick
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