Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Reflex vs. RF
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:17:38 -0800
References: <7B81E1AD-070A-11D7-9FCD-000393802534@mac.com>

Ah yes, the halcyon days of R8 bashing. Why, I remember myself decrying
the 'stuffed pig's' poor workmanship, etc. I now stand corrected, and I
bravely, and brazenly let my R8 swing from left to right, on my
shoulder, as I walk with it as though on parade.
Slobodan Dimitrov


Martin Howard wrote:
> R8 rugged!??  Oh, how short the LUGs memory is.  I recall when this
> camera first appeared.  We're talking, what, three, four years ago?
> There were cries from every corner of the world about how its
> electronics were not up to par, how it was too heavy, too bulky, lacked
> a motordrive, how a number of people thought that it wouldn't survive a
> week of hard, professional shooting, and they'd have to pry the R7 from
> their cold, dead hands.
> 
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