robsteve
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I have a need to shoot some of my kids indoor sports this year and have decided to move to Nikon AF. I am selling my Ex+ DMR and EX++ R9. Asking price as a set $4,200, Fedex shipping and insurance included. Individually, DMR $3,600, R9 $1,000; shipping extra. Keep in mind that overnight shipping by Fedex on a high value item like this will be $300 or more and is factored into the asking price of the complete set.
The DMR and R9 come with the boxes, paperwork, and manuals they came with new. The R9 is an anthracite version, bought new by me from a Halifax dealer when they first came out. The DMR was bought new in September or October of the year they first came out. It came from Ritz collectibles in Arizona, a Leica dealer.
The DMR is probably in ex++, but not the New York dealers meaning of ex++, which is usually pretty beat. There are no scratches on the display but a few marks on the base. The white paint is missing from some of the buttons to the left of the display. The labels for these buttons seemed to be cast into the part as a positive relief and could probably be repainted.
The DMR comes with three batteries, two of which work well. The third works but doesn't have the capacity of the others. Yesterday I put it through a couple discharge cycles to see if it was just a calibration of the battery charge circuitry and it seems better. The other two work well. For example, last week I shot my son's soccer game on one battery and it didn't even go off full. I was shooting steady and a junior soccer game is only an hour long.
I also have a set of focusing screens that have had the Maxwell Optics process done to them. I was an early DMR adopter and the DMR screens were not available yet. I sent my existing screens to Maxwell optics and they treated them with their process and etched the DMR crop lines on them. I have the grid screen, the microprism screen and the stock screen with the Maxwell treatment. There is also the stock screen that came with the DMR. If the R9 is not sold with the DMR, the stock R9 screen that had the Maxwell optics process and DMR crops added will go with the camera, not the DMR kit.
The R9 would also be in ex++ to mint minus. It had the meter cells replaced by Kindermann probably five or six years ago. I had them set the exposure meter to -1/3 stop and on matrix metering it exposes almost perfectly with the DMR. Prior to this, I typically shot with an exposure comp of -1/2 which was slightly dark.
On my 35-70mm listing linked below, all the pictures were shot with the DMR. Take note of the last picture of the young girl. That was straight out of capture one 7 and a huge increase in colour quality,tonality and sharpness. I think in those qualities, the DMR still cannot be beat. If you look up the fun with DMR images thread on GetDPI, I have a comparison of this image to an old process of it to show the increase in quality.
http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/gear-fs-wtb/41391-fs-leica-35-70mm-f2-8-vario-elmarit-r-asph.html
Below are some photos of the DMR and R9 combo. Excuse the quality of the photos, as they were taken with my ancient original EOS 1D. When my Nikon arrives I will take some photos of the complete kit in the boxes. A couple shiny marks on the body are just finger prints. In particular there was a big nose print to the left of the preview screen in one shot. I cleaned it and reshot. In the shot where the LCD shows a bit of blue, it is just from the strobe. The 50mm Summicron shown on the camera is not included in the sale.
The DMR and R9 come with the boxes, paperwork, and manuals they came with new. The R9 is an anthracite version, bought new by me from a Halifax dealer when they first came out. The DMR was bought new in September or October of the year they first came out. It came from Ritz collectibles in Arizona, a Leica dealer.
The DMR is probably in ex++, but not the New York dealers meaning of ex++, which is usually pretty beat. There are no scratches on the display but a few marks on the base. The white paint is missing from some of the buttons to the left of the display. The labels for these buttons seemed to be cast into the part as a positive relief and could probably be repainted.
The DMR comes with three batteries, two of which work well. The third works but doesn't have the capacity of the others. Yesterday I put it through a couple discharge cycles to see if it was just a calibration of the battery charge circuitry and it seems better. The other two work well. For example, last week I shot my son's soccer game on one battery and it didn't even go off full. I was shooting steady and a junior soccer game is only an hour long.
I also have a set of focusing screens that have had the Maxwell Optics process done to them. I was an early DMR adopter and the DMR screens were not available yet. I sent my existing screens to Maxwell optics and they treated them with their process and etched the DMR crop lines on them. I have the grid screen, the microprism screen and the stock screen with the Maxwell treatment. There is also the stock screen that came with the DMR. If the R9 is not sold with the DMR, the stock R9 screen that had the Maxwell optics process and DMR crops added will go with the camera, not the DMR kit.
The R9 would also be in ex++ to mint minus. It had the meter cells replaced by Kindermann probably five or six years ago. I had them set the exposure meter to -1/3 stop and on matrix metering it exposes almost perfectly with the DMR. Prior to this, I typically shot with an exposure comp of -1/2 which was slightly dark.
On my 35-70mm listing linked below, all the pictures were shot with the DMR. Take note of the last picture of the young girl. That was straight out of capture one 7 and a huge increase in colour quality,tonality and sharpness. I think in those qualities, the DMR still cannot be beat. If you look up the fun with DMR images thread on GetDPI, I have a comparison of this image to an old process of it to show the increase in quality.
http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/gear-fs-wtb/41391-fs-leica-35-70mm-f2-8-vario-elmarit-r-asph.html
Below are some photos of the DMR and R9 combo. Excuse the quality of the photos, as they were taken with my ancient original EOS 1D. When my Nikon arrives I will take some photos of the complete kit in the boxes. A couple shiny marks on the body are just finger prints. In particular there was a big nose print to the left of the preview screen in one shot. I cleaned it and reshot. In the shot where the LCD shows a bit of blue, it is just from the strobe. The 50mm Summicron shown on the camera is not included in the sale.