Leica sent letters to its dealers, stating that they are discontinuing its R-Series manual focus SLRs. It is sad to hear that R9 and R-series SLRs and lenses will no longer be produced. Even though I have never used any of them, I really liked the rather strange shape of these cameras. Leica also said that insights gained during the development of the S2 (its first autofocus camera), will feed into the development of a future generation of the R-system.

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