Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Tina, Good gracies you: you are lucky! ;-)) And the Leica M8 has a sturdy construction! Enjoy India and good luck. Kind regards Fred. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@comporium.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:15 AM Subject: [Leica] M8 Scare > LUG: > > My husband is very frugal (some would say cheap!) and instead of > paying a bellboy to carry our luggage, we always carry it > ourselves. In the lobby of the hotel in Agra, I was taking my > backpack off and snagged the M8 hanging from my shoulder. It flew > forcefully across the room, hitting the marble floor and sliding > about 6 feet. I was scared to pick it up, but it landed on the > baseplate and everything seems fine. After all of the bad reports > about the M8, I thought you might want to hear something good! I > also updated the firmware here in India and it worked perfectly. My > photos of the Taj Mahal, such as they are, are up on the blog. I'd > appreciate any comments! > > Until I get e-mail again - > > Tina > > Tina Manley > http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/ > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >