Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the same problem as you with electronic cameras. To me they are disposable cameras to begin with, so I don't invest too heavily in them. I also seem to manage to find virtually any peculiarity, physical or firmware, that sends them to the service dept. at least twice within the warranty period, and once outside it before I sell them. As the basic service cost is somewhere between 20-38% of the retail cost (as they are price fixed) of the unit itself, only one fix is justified. Maybe you should consider a 'wait and see' until the next Photokino. I suspect that there are more M mount platforms, this time in digitial media, coming our way which won't insult our intelligence and abuse our wallets. Slobodan Dimitrov On Nov 9, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Howard Cummer wrote: Hi Luggers, Remember the replacement M8 that I received on China's National Day Holiday, Oct 1st, that was delivered by Fedex to me by taxi?? The one that replaced my original broken shutter M8 which DHL lost for a month? Well, the replacement has developed a serious case of dead pixels and is now on its way, via the Leica agent in Hong Kong, back to Solms for likely replacement. Please see: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+Pix/ L9994018Xw.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/3yvl6r I am being treated nicely by Schmidt - they are not charging me the usual HK$500 handling fee - and they have managed to find me a loaner M8 so I am still out shooting - but I am beginning to have some doubts about the reliability of M8's - I should hasten to add "in my hands" because most owners seem not to have had any trouble at all. I expect the turn around via Schmidt will be six weeks to two months but I don't care so much since I have a loaner - and hopefully the camera won't get lost this time. I am reminded that it took me three tries to get a properly operating RD-1 so hopefully I will be third time lucky with the M8. A subdued "cheers" this time from Hong Kong Howard. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information