Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another horror story... A Norwegian has submitted a test on the Leica R8 camera to Photonet (see: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/photo/leica/r8.html). He used the R8 with the following lenses: Elmarit 24 mm f/2.8, Summilux 35 mm f/1.4, Summilux 80 mm f/1.4, Elmarit 180 mm f/2.8, Vario-Elmar 28-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 (which he describes as a real dog), and Vario-Apo-Elmarit 70-180 mm f/2.8. After a few weeks of use, the R8 metering system failed completely. He sent it back to the importer and the demo he got in return had some flash-sync malfunctioning. After he got back his own R8, not only did the meter fail again, but also the pre-flash metering system and the flash-sync (see: http://db.photo.net/com/philg/photo/leica/index.html). So he dumped his R8 and instead got an M6 and an EOS 1N. His R8 now enjoys a second life at the Leica Academy in Solms... Interesting litterature but I sure do hope that such mishappenings are an exception. Pascal