Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]as always you bring an uncanny wisdom that those of us who pore over lager and laney and rogliatti which concentrate on specs. if don't give a fig for TTL (i even have the big metz 60CT4 and have never bought the TTL modules.) mut a caremea that's unrealiable is not fun. i have now reached a critical mass where there is virtually guaranteed at one time there will be something getting repaired (currenctly the SLR2MOT). it demonstrates that things drift to their correct prices eventually and that great arbtritrage is a rare thing. the TTL is not worth the $200 difference between an R4 and R5; greater reliability and serviceability probably is. -rei On Apr30 07:47, Douglas Herr wrote: > Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote: > > > it's no M3 or even an M6, but why are these cameras so cheap? > > Rei, the R4 is cheap partly because of the reasons others have mentioned, and partly because they're a *&%# pain in the a$$ to service. Among the improvements in the R4sP, carried forward to the R5, RE and later bodies, is better servicability. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey