Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For those who don't know the story, my R8 (with DMR) and 80~200 Vario Elmar were severely damaged, last month, by rainwater which leaked into the Solms factory, where my camera had been left for repair. To make a short story shorter, Leica replaced my R8 with a brand new R8! (I was surprised that they still have NIB R8's in the warehouse!) All is well, except the new R8 has a blue finder display, rather than the yellow one I'm used to. This, I can live with... in fact, I kinda like it, once you get used to it! According to Andrew Nemeth's FAQ: at some point, during the early production, Leica ran out of the yellow displays, and accepted a small number of blue ones, to fill in until the yellow ones were again available. (Other than colour, they are identical.) I see various *bay ads and other references claiming the blue display is "rare". Now I'm curious! How rare? Do I have an "instant collectible"? Does anybody know how many R8s were made with these 'blue' displays? Now, I'm curious! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt