Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know this is a late comment on this, but Thursday night I began to set up my new 27" iMac computer, and did the merge thing which took 13 hours, via wireless, yes I know it would have been quicker if by firewire, but did not have firewire on the macbook. Then Friday morning we took off for Wisconsin to the horse and buggy show, and have jsut gotten back. So, I have had the SL, R4SP, R3MOT, and the R8. In my opinion, both the SL and R8 are very well built and tough bodies. Granted the R8 is electronic and will suffer any problems in that area, but so far mine has been problem free after 6 years, but as far as mechanical build it is every bit as well built as the SL. Now after I get through the 435 emails, I will begin cleaning up any dupes in the merge, and then load my new Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.0 software. Should be fun? ;-) Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: tedgrant at shaw.ca To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2010 2:57:28 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? Seth Rosner did say: >>In fact, > every one of them with whom I have spoken uniformly say that the Leicaflex > SL is the only SLR camera ever made with the build quality of the Leica > M3.<<<< Hi Seth, As far as I'm concerned given the amount of film put through mine, banging and beating my Sl motor driven camera's took during a very hectic time of my earlier career, I have no doubt the Leicaflex SL was built from melted down TIGER TANKS! :-) They were the most solid feeling camera I think I've ever had in my hands, they could be banged, dropped and whatever and they still kept going. I bet you could drive nails with them. :-) ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information