[Leica] The Trouble I've seen

[cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer)]

Hi Slobodan,
In my ownership of digital cameras over the last 8 - 10 years ( yes I  
am an early adopter and sometimes pay a price for it) the worst has  
been the RD1 and now the M8. I had a Nikon D70 fail - and even though  
it was out of warranty Nikon repaired it at no charge. The only other  
digital requiring service was a Canon 5D(for viewfinder dust problems)  
- also done under warranty. Hopefully my next M8 will be the "good"  
one and that will tide me over until the next Photokina where I too  
hope there will be more M mount digital platforms. Based on my  
experiences now with four M8's (two of mine and two loaners) I could  
think of a series of improvements which I would hope to see in the  
next generation whether from Leica or others (Zeiss Cosina??) - live  
view, focus confirmation, auto ISO, programmable focal lengths and f  
stops (a la Nikon D200), and a non filter solution to IR magenta issues.
I live in hope. :-)
Cheers
Howard.

On 11 Nov 2007, at 1:47 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:22:05 -0800
> From: slobodan dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Nobody knows the trouble I've seen . . .
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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> 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