Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Quality Control & Customer Service (!)
From: AppleMac97@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:35:12 EDT

<<Just curious, how does a all mechanical camera "die" in the middle of a roll
of film? Could your meter BATTERY have EXPIRED? You know, the M6 continues
to work mechanically without the meter. I think you, rather than the camera
could be the problem.

Steve
Annapolis>>


Steve:

Thanks so much for your helpful response!  NOT!!!  I think I mentioned in my 
original posting that the shutter had jammed.  I rewound the film and took it 
out of the camera.  I took the lens off and put it back on again.  I put in a 
new set of batteries just to make sure that was not the problem.  Nothing I 
tried would work.  The shutter stayed jammed.  I also looked inside to make 
sure dirt or any solid objects had not jammed the mechanism.  That's why the 
camera went back to Leica for servicing.  I have been taking photos for 
twenty years, have used many different systems and formats, and I know my way 
around cameras and lenses.  So your comment that "I think you, rather than 
the camera could be the problem" is presumptuous and rude since you know 
nothing about me or the problem at hand.  I am glad that other LUGers have 
responded to this both on and off list in more constructive manner.

Muhammad

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Muhammad R.K. Chishty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance
Graham School of Management
Saint Xavier University
3700 West 103rd Street
Chicago, IL 60655, USA

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