Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]R8 (new with 2-year warranty) is now sold for around 1700 USD at an authorised dealer in Tokyo. What does such a discount mean? Mikiro At 3:16 am +0200 3/9/99, Eric Welch wrote: >At 09:21 PM 9/2/99 +0200, you wrote: >>If Leica were to come out (one day) with an AF body that would require >>new R lenses to work on it, they would commit a kind of commercial >>suicide. > >IF Leica does, and according to the local Leica rep. it's coming in less >than two years, it will be able to use the old lenses in focus >confirmation. Leica's not always at the forefront of technological >innovation, but they are pretty savvy on what makes sense. The R8 is such a >wonderful camera, in spite of a few things, that I could see it staying >pretty much the same with AF circuits added. I'd buy it.