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my favorite R4 - an R4sP - among friends . . .

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it's beautiful -- here's another . . .

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Here's mine,

 

I've just got "back into" the R system, all bought this month and at a very good price too, the R system is superb value now, I paid £2k for the lot !

 

The 50mm ROM ( on R8 ) was "Brand New" old stock, I got it along with the R5 for £599, I received it's 2 year warranty and passport from Leica UK in todays post:D

 

The 100 APO ROM is truly a magical lens, I picked it up for a bargain £500

 

The 2x APO ROM was also a bargain at £199

 

The remainder ..... R8 277... serial , 35 & 90 Elmarits cost £700 in total

 

All bought from reputable dealers with 6 month warranties ( except the new 50mm )

 

I'm a very "happy camper":D

 

I owned an R8 up until 5 years ago and always regretted selling it so this "nice little purchase" sure feels sweet.

 

Last year I had a bad experience with a s/h lens from a Leica Premier Dealer whereby they would not honour their warranty, it left me angry to say the least, in fact it led to me selling my 2 M8's and four wonderful primes, I had been considering the S system but this experience left me saying "sod it, no more Leica" and I bought a H3DII 39 instead, which by the way is a terrific tool. However I still missed the Leica's and my experience was the dealers fault not Leica's so why "cut off my nose to spite my face" so to speak, so once again I'm a Leica user and loving every moment of using these superb cameras.

 

Simon

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Here's my R8, I say mine but I've recently sold it to help fund an M8 purchase - Boy do I miss it! :(

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Do you know if that dealer has more equipment to sell? I'm looking for some lenses to my R8 too... :)

 

If you want you can answer by PM.

 

Regards

 

 

I'm afraid I "cleaned him out" , well except for an R8 winder which I did not want, he's now sold that for £50 !

 

I initially contacted him regarding a 180mm F2.8 APO he was listing for £449 ! missed it by half an hour .....bugger ! Never mind, all-in-all I think I've done quite well

 

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Simon, here in Portugal is hard to get this kind of equipment so if you have know more people selling please let me know :)

 

(hope you don't mind about this...)

 

Will do, let me know what ideally you would like and if I see it at a good price I'll let you know. Assuming I don't want it of course ;)

 

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Here's mine,

 

I've just got "back into" the R system, all bought this month and at a very good price too, the R system is superb value now, I paid £2k for the lot !

 

The 50mm ROM ( on R8 ) was "Brand New" old stock, I got it along with the R5 for £599, I received it's 2 year warranty and passport from Leica UK in todays post:D

 

The 100 APO ROM is truly a magical lens, I picked it up for a bargain £500

 

The 2x APO ROM was also a bargain at £199

 

The remainder ..... R8 277... serial , 35 & 90 Elmarits cost £700 in total

 

All bought from reputable dealers with 6 month warranties ( except the new 50mm )

 

I'm a very "happy camper":D

 

I owned an R8 up until 5 years ago and always regretted selling it so this "nice little purchase" sure feels sweet.

 

Last year I had a bad experience with a s/h lens from a Leica Premier Dealer whereby they would not honour their warranty, it left me angry to say the least, in fact it led to me selling my 2 M8's and four wonderful primes, I had been considering the S system but this experience left me saying "sod it, no more Leica" and I bought a H3DII 39 instead, which by the way is a terrific tool. However I still missed the Leica's and my experience was the dealers fault not Leica's so why "cut off my nose to spite my face" so to speak, so once again I'm a Leica user and loving every moment of using these superb cameras.

 

Simon

 

I have just added a 24mm Elmarit ROM to my kit, it is genuinely "unused' and appears to have never been mounted onto a body . Bought for £350.00 ! as I said earlier ... the R system sure represents wonderful value for money now.

 

Simon

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