Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16
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Jay Coleman wrote:
> I am not aware of problems on the scale of the R4. But I have never
> owned an R4. I did have problems with all R5, R6 and R7. If yours is
> working fine, though, I wouldn't worry about it.
The early R4's (including all those labelled R4-Mot, I think), with serial
numbers below 16xxxxx (I can't remember how many zero there are) had the
electronics built onto a wire-wrap board - these apparently fail at a very
high rate. The later models have proper printed circuit boards. It is, of
course, always a bit of a lottery buying second-hand, regardless of how
careful you are, it seems.
You might want to have a look at this site for more details on R-body
problems:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/Leica/page6.html
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