Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/17

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Subject: [Leica] M8: "I think it's gonna be all right"
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Fri Nov 17 15:14:58 2006
References: <5f1be6b50611170906m4bbc4756oebd723bdc308f4dc@mail.gmail.com> <cffaf2bf29cde.455dbf66@shaw.ca> <p06230904c183e64a2c1f@[10.1.16.129]> <849AB707-B239-4284-BA50-CFFD4DBBEB3E@pandora.be> <p06230905c183ea83299b@[10.1.16.129]> <B5C0D947-BCD5-4638-9108-EE4621E7D849@pandora.be> <p06230907c183f1aed78c@[10.1.16.129]>

True. Didn't get that from your former mail.
I just pray it doesn't happen to mine.


Op 18-nov-06, om 00:11 heeft Henning Wulff het volgende geschreven:

> At 11:56 PM +0100 11/17/06, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>> So you're saying that any other Leica could have taken that  
>> beating up?
>>
>
> Not really, but any other Leica wouldn't have separated from the  
> strap like that! Eyelets that stay attached to the body are pretty  
> much essential.
>
>>
>> Op 17-nov-06, om 23:49 heeft Henning Wulff het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> At 11:27 PM +0100 11/17/06, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>>> What made you so unhappy with the M4-2?
>>>> It was my first Leica, and a whole world opened up to me. Never  
>>>> left me in shame.
>>>>
>>>> Philippe
>>>
>>> Quite a few things. Quality control was not up to expectations.  
>>> I'd bought it pretty much as soon as it came out, and the winder  
>>> for it that arrived shortly after. The less said about the winder  
>>> the better. It was truly terrible; Eumig and Leica should hang  
>>> their head in shame for producing that!
>>>
>>> The M4-2 was in the shop a couple of times immediately after I  
>>> bought it. Fortunately the shop at that time was very close and  
>>> responsive, so I had it back  quickly. The wind mechanism bound,  
>>> the rangefinder adjustment was somewhat loose so that every  
>>> little bump caused it to go off.
>>>
>>> Then, on a little trip that included Crater Lake in Oregon, I was  
>>> shooting with a 35 Summicron on the M4-2 and a Hologon on an M4,  
>>> and also with a Konica T-something with tele lens, and after  
>>> shooting with the M4-2 I let it drop as it was slung from a strap  
>>> off my left shoulder, and instead of stopping when it reached the  
>>> length of the strap, it just kept on going....and going.... It  
>>> hit the first rocks, bounced and hit some more rocks. About 20  
>>> feet down it stopped. The camera had serious damage, and so did  
>>> the Summicron. The eyelet had pulled out of the body.
>>>
>>> Leica gave me a new M4-2 and Summicron. I sold the M4-2 and the  
>>> stupid winder and didn't buy another Leica until the M6 was out a  
>>> number of years.
>
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