Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah yes, the halcyon days of R8 bashing. Why, I remember myself decrying the 'stuffed pig's' poor workmanship, etc. I now stand corrected, and I bravely, and brazenly let my R8 swing from left to right, on my shoulder, as I walk with it as though on parade. Slobodan Dimitrov Martin Howard wrote: > R8 rugged!?? Oh, how short the LUGs memory is. I recall when this > camera first appeared. We're talking, what, three, four years ago? > There were cries from every corner of the world about how its > electronics were not up to par, how it was too heavy, too bulky, lacked > a motordrive, how a number of people thought that it wouldn't survive a > week of hard, professional shooting, and they'd have to pry the R7 from > their cold, dead hands. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html