Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> wrote >So here is what I've done. I've bought a "failed" R3. It reportedly doesn't >work, and I bought it "as-is". What were the common failures? Were they >repairable economically? My understanding is if the electronics fail you are pretty much out of luck. This was supposed to be common in the early years of the R3, but not so much now. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. If the electronics fail for whatever reason (including just dead batteries), the camera will still work when set for flash synch (1/90 sec). I think problems with the wind lever are also relatively common, but that is not much of a problem to fix. - -- Michael Bell MBell@mail.utexas.edu