Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/13

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Only 100,000 exposures???
From: Edi Weitz <weitz@math.uni-hannover.de>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:20:15 +0200
 
Hi Group!

Last weekend I was in Cologne and discovered a nice camera store called "Foto Gregor" [located at the "Neumarkt" place in the city's center]. They have an extra room for Leicas filled with many show-cases full of new and used Leicas. Mainly collectors will be impressed by their huge collection of special editions, I think. E.g., they had an M6 with Michael Schumacher's autograph engraved... [Hey, who buys something like that??]

But I'm digressing. I took with me the Leica brochures about the R6.2 and the R7. Although I'm only interested in rangefinder cameras I like the Leica pamphlets and thought it to be a good reading for the train. To my surprise I found out that both pamphlets had the following sentence in it:

        "Leica R cameras are designed for at least 100,000 exposures."
        [My own translation]

OK, they didn't write that your Leica will take itself apart after you made exposure number 100,000 but - 100,000 exposures isn't that much for professional use, or am I wrong? Is this a typo or what? Any hints?

Bye, Edi.