[LRflex] A Rare R8?

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!




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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt




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