Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roger Beamon wrote: > > On 4 Sep 99, Bill Larsen wrote, at least in part: > > > My concern would be if they became so arrogant and self-involved > > that they thought that they could do everything in house, with > > minor factoring to outside sources. If they did that, they > > probably couldn't even build a motor drive for their camera. > > I hope that you didn't answer your own speculation here, Bill, > because they haven't yet offered the drive for the R8, at least! > 8^) > > -- > Roger Hi Roger!! Well this is an interesting switch! A while back everyone was up in arms for thinking Leica would have the gaul to let someone make them a screw. Now we're (kidding about I think) hoping for the opposite! Not owning an R makes it pretty irrelevant or callus for me to say I don't give a dang about the motor on the R8. If I had an R8 I think I could easily forgo the motor for a long while. Of course I would feel differently if I had put money down on one or was going to plan on having the R8 be my professional camera for nitty gritty professional work. Still again I would think if that were the case I would have an R7 to tide me over with a motor which seems like a beautiful proven camera. If I was running Leica I would not have the motor for the R8 be on the front burner either. Perhaps a shameless troll but my sincere humble callus opinion. Mark Rabiner