[LRflex] Re: Is it worth repairing the R3?
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:05:21 -0700
David,
I did have my eyes checked and I do have macular degeneration in my
right eye, as well as a cataract. There is no point in a cataract operation
since the MD will cause blindness anyway.
So I focus with my left eye. That one is OK.
Jerry
David Young wrote:
> At 07/06/2006, you wrote:
>
> >Aaram,
> >
> >There is a complete EQUALITY 'tween the focusing of my R4s and the
> >borrowed R9; in my experience. Your R8 or R9 must have a magic prism
> >or the R4 has a defective prism. Which is it?
> >
> >Jerry
>
> Perhaps, Jerry, it's time to have your eyes checked! ;-)
>
> "Your experience" does not seem to match that of virtually every
> other person who has compared the two, including Leica, themselves!
>
> The R3 through R7 were Minolta based, although by the time they got
> to the R4s Mod II (Mod 'P' in the Excited States) there were no
> Minolta designed electronics in them and some of the internal
> mechanics had been changed, too. By the time the time the R6.2 was
> produced, the only Minolta designed bits left were pretty much the
> prism, focus screen holder and the wind lever shaft. By the R7, the
> wind lever shaft had been redesigned by Leica, too!
>
> The R8 was the first fully Leica designed body since the SL2. They
> went with the larger pentaprism, as they had with the original 'flex,
> SL and SL2, in order to get the brighter finder that was missing in
> all models since the SL2.
>
> This story came to me from the director of marketing at Leica, USA,
> but has been widely reported in various books, as well.
>
> Cheers!
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
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