[Leica] Digital M - was Leica to Restructure

[rclompus@cox.net]

Jerry,

Hopefully Leica USA will offer an extended warranty.  I waited a bit before 
buying an R8 and still had issues almost a year after I bought it.  Leica came 
through with the repair and internal replacment of electronics that continue 
to function well today.

Richard
> 
> From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
> Date: 2004/02/07 Sat PM 07:29:08 EST
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital M - was Leica to Restructure
> 
> Clompus
> 
> No, thanks.  I will wait till the bugs are worked out before I buy.
> 
> Trying to be the "first kid on the block to own one" was never my
> way.  I left it for the rich kids, then I bought it from them.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> rclompus@cox.net wrote:
> 
> > I would like to be the first one to buy a digital Leica M in the U.S.  I got
> > Tamarkin's first Leica M7 - which was to have been the first in the U.S. 
for
> > retail sale.  As an optometrist who has spent a great deal of my life 
studying
> > optics and improving patient's vision, I love Leica glass.  Their factory 
tour a
> > few years ago in Solms really showed how small scale they were and how
> > delicate a company it really is financially.
> >
> > I'll keep my fingers crossed they can pull it off.  This will be the gamble 
that
> > will either save the company or bankrupt it.  In the mean time, I'll use
> > another digital body with a lens adapter for the their R glass.
> >
> > Richard Clompus, OD
> > Roanoke, VA
> > >
> > > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> > > Date: 2004/02/07 Sat PM 02:43:22 EST
> > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital M - was Leica to Restructure, Cut Staff
> > >
> > > I have never had a doubt in the world that someone could pull it off
> > > technically - the question is whether someone has the money and the
> > > commitment. This, coupled with the rest of the Leica news, suggests 
that
> > > even Leica realizes the future for a film camera company is indeed
> > > bleak, and that any camera company that wants to stay afloat will have
> > > to do it with digital. So if they can sell those bonds...I'm ready to
> > > order...:-)
> >
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