[Leica] Nobody knows the trouble I've seen . . .

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Howard

Looks like you're really unlucky with digital rangefinders. Maybe a sign 
that you should not have quit shooting film!... The revenge of the 
silverhalogenide ghosts... your only chance is... go back to film!

I'm with my 2nd R-D1s and the RF ist vertically disaligned again, and 
slightly behind focus at close up (approx 3cm) with all lenses I tested. 
Otherwise ok.

The day I'll have the guts for doing it I'll disassemble the top plate and 
adjust it myself. Because sending it overseas to DAG ended with horrible 
export and reimport taxes for me (with the first R-D1 sample I had).

Cheers anyway,

Didier


>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://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.