Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]robsteve@hfx.andara.com writes: << Both the F2 and F3 feel cheap and unrefined compared to the R8. In my books, the R7 is probably a better camera than the F3 too when it comes to smoothness of controls and operating features. >> And well they should be, considering how much newer designs and more expensive the Leicas are. _______ Funny, Dr. Black Tape's feeling is just the opposite. Admittedly, he has only "played" with an R8 at a dealers, but when he did his immediate impression was that it was a somewhat cheap and "plasticy" camera, in no way comparable to the build or feel of an M, and in no way comparable to an F3, a camera that is two generations older. If one wants to be fair, by the way, compare the F2 or F3 to, what, an R3 or 4? The R6.2, by comparison, feels much more like an F3 - a dependable, basically mechanical brick. (Dr. Black Tape is not such a fool that he doesn't know that the F3 is battery-dependent. However, it has far more in common with its ancestors than it does with its descendants.) DT