Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/09
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Hello LUG,
Sorry I have been so quiet lately, too much work etc etc. Trying to get get
back some balance!
A couple of months ago the minilux showed the E02 error. I seen this famous
shutter error three times now, the first two times Leica fixed it for a fee.
The third time I thought I'd email them and ask if it was worth fixing as
they had already fixed it twice before. I got a very nice mail back from
Leica service in Germany apologising for the third occurance of the E02
error and inviting me to send it to them for a free repair which I promptly
did.
Back it came three weeks later in time for my holiday to NZ, so I decided
I'd take film instead of digital and give the Minilux a bit of work (to test
the new shutter of course!). The black and whites were taken with the
minilux at Rotorua which is a thermal region full of steam and boiling mud.
The colour shots were taken with an old canon T70 with a 28mm FD as it had
been a few years since I had put a film through this camera and thought some
exercise would do it good. I ended up liking both the colour and B&W shots,
each giving a different feel for the same region. All scanned on a Coolscan
V.
Comments and critiques welcome.
BIG THANKS TO LEICA SERVICE FOR A JOB WELLDONE ON THE MINILUX!
Regards
jeff le kiwi
Paris