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Subject: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:06:24 -0500
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Just one of those weird Leica things.
Turn it around, why is the R9 selling for so much more than the R8, it
is virtually the same camera.
But, tangible reasons - the R9 has a lock button for the mode selector,
and a lot of the electronic bugs in early R8's, and film scratching,
were solved in the R9. So, the R9 is more reliable.
Reliability is worth the extra bucks.
Vick
On 12/5/2011 10:38 PM, James Laird wrote:
> Why is the R8 selling for so much less than the R9? Less than half the
> cost at KEH anyway.
>
> Jim
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