Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] R8 / DMR questions
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:48:06 -0600
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On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:34 PM, John McMaster wrote:

> I am trying out an early R8 (sn 2294***) and a DMR (sn 10029**) and having 
> some issues, I have read that some early R8s had issues with the DMR?
> 
> The exposure reading is way out, about 3 stops over, waiting for a test 
> film to come back. Tried it with various lenses both 3-cam and ROM.
> 
> Batteries seems to have decent charge but neither DMR release fires the 
> shutter and the shutter is not re-cocked - have to do the latter by hand.
> 
> Are these incompatibilities or is something broken? I have read that some 
> early R8s had to be sent back to Leica for something to be changed?

sounds like a number of things going wrong.

my R8/DMR works as intended.
meter is quite superb 99% of the time.
color balance can go a bit strange on occasion

sounds like it needs some work to play well with DMR

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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