Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R4
From: "Doug Herr" <Dherr@energy.state.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:46:45 -0800

César Bernardo wrote:
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Anyone have any information / experiences with the Leica R4. Have noticed 
that they are cheap second-hand. Is there any particular reason for this ? 
I want buy a Leica, i`m in love. I `m going sell my Canon EOS 50 and the 
Flash Metz 32-mz to buy the leica.
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Be careful! early production of the R4 was very buggy.  Look for a serial number over 1,600,000 (I forget how many zeros).  Also inexpensive, and reliable, are the R4s and R4s Model 2 (USA:R4sP).  You'll love the lenses.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt