Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, I sent it in to Leica NJ. They did the update there in NJ. It was a free update, what they called a warranty repair (My R8 was well out of warranty and so was the DMR, as I bought it used while in Germany). do not know what they did exactly, but it took about 2 weeks round trip for this service. Not a download from their website, unfortunately. Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Laird" <digiratidoc at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 12:32:59 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you buy a Leicaflex SL2 these days? Gene, What was involved in the firmware update for the R8 to use the DMR? Did you have to send it to Leica or was it a simple download? Jim On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:18 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information