[Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Hi Gary,

Yes that is the guy.  No need to apologize for giving out good info.  And 
yes I also did some testing for him.

Cheers,
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Pinkerton" <gpinkcp at msn.com>
To: lug at leica-users.org
Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:09:44 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?

Apologies for butting in....
Stasys, I'm pretty sure it was Michael Bass.
He rebuilt 4 batteries for me, and let me, Gene and others test some of his 
power sources for the DMR.
Nice guy too:)
If link does not work then just search for Michael Bass Designs
Gary
http://michaelbass.blogspot.com/2007/09/sync-cords.html#Leica_DMR_BatPack_Comp

> From: stasys1 at cox.net
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 07:28:38 -0800
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?
> 
> Gene - Hope it's not too cold in Iowa- here is it about 50 F this morning. 
> I turned in my DMR battery to Leica NJ and they sold me a rebuilt one for 
> $150- and not their normal $190 price since I had the R9/DMR CLA'd.  I 
> have 2 R8's with motor drives and both batteries are shot. What is the 
> name/email of the guy who redid a battery for you? Leica NJ wants $285 to 
> have that battery refurbished in Germany. Best, Stasys
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:18 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
> 
> > I have one of the early to mid production R8's and never had any 
> > problems with it and definitely no film scratching.  I did have to have 
> > it updated, firmware wise so it would work correctly with the DMR.
> > 
> > Gene
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca>
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 10:06:24 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days?
> > 
> > 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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