Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<Miro, The easy solution: get one of each ;-) Seriously, I have owned both but for me the R8 is the best. I sold the R7 and now have the R8, backed up by a Leicaflex SL. For me, these two cameras, 30 years apart, are the best Leica has to offer in SLRs. But the R7 is a nice camera too, and you might prefer its smaller size. It is such a personal choice that it is difficult to give advice on it. The only objective advantage of the R7 is that it will still function with a dead battery, albeit only at the synch speed (as far as I remember). The R8 is dead without a battery. Nathan Miro Jurcevic wrote:>> No, they don't. The R7 needs a battery to fire. It is the R6.2 that can work without a battery... later, Rich