Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/01
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Raimo wrote:
>German magazine Color Foto did a survey among the readership 9/89 and
>really found out that there were indeed problems with (early) R4 cameras
>(not R4s). R4 is described as "Sorgenkind" - the child of sorrow - of the
>Leica cameras. {...} And yes - the M6 itself "ist kein Musterknabe" or
>model boy - but no details here, either.
>BTW the best was Nikon with 15.6% defects (FM/FM2 only 6.7%), then
Yashica >(yes, really) 16.6%, Ricoh (yes, really) 17.1%, Canon 19.6%, Leica - as
>stated - 24.3%, Pentax 25.9%, Minolta 26% and Contax 30.3%....
Raimo,
The survey IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE and just shows that the given percentage
of R3/R4 owners who had trouble or were unsatisfied wrote to the magazine.
That's all. Malfunctions/problems were not specified, noone had to prove
anything.
Prices on the used market reflect a lot of facts but they do not reflect
reliability.
Still there is only one reliable source of information on the issue -
Wetzlar/Solms. But they won't tell you, won't they?
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