Originally Posted by
pajj
Well, very interesting and nicely engineered but a design anomaly is what I think. The one I shot years ago wasn't anything impressive, but definitely interesting in a different, quirky, sort of way. Yes I suppose the HR81 came out better from the pot than the early incarnations of the SA80 and in that was a better initial design, functionally, but both were "also rans" in comparison with most of the well established and readily available alternatives. Which begs the question: Why?