Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I want everybody to know that I think that the R8 is a dynamite camera. If I needed another R camera, I would buy one in a nanosecond! I was merely relating a saga that I run into at KSP in Palo Alto. These are all very good friends of mine and they don't hold back on their thoughts. Jim At 06:01 AM 2/5/00 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >Jim Brick wrote: > >>I don't know the answer to that, but Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo >>Alto CA, one of the largest Leica dealers on the west coast, has two mint >>used R8's in boxes with everything. One black, one chrome. They have been >>on the shelf for a very long time. The general manager of the store calls >>them the "Leica bookends!" Is there a message here? >> >>Don't get me wrong. I think the R8 is a great camera. But obviously a lot >>of other people don't. They have had, and sold, dozens of used R4's, R5's, >>R6's and R7's all the while that the used R8's just sit there. R7's last >>less than a day.>>>> > >Hi Jim, > >On a good day the manager might go for a "two for one" sale on the Leica >bookends!:) Offer to take them off his hands for 1/2 price if you take >both! :) > >Make a nice conversation piece over the fire place. :) And back-up bodies.;) > >ted > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant >