[Leica] Any chance there is a DMR out there for sale? S2

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

John Nebel offered
Subject: Re: [Leica] Any chance there is a DMR out there for sale? S2


> Ted,
> > My R3 never failed until after I'd given it away, although I heard later 
> > on
> that there was a problem with the flexible circuit strip in some of the 
> R3s which rendered them effectively unrepairable. /lug for more 
> information<<<<<<

As I understand it crapped out more than it kept going. There were also 
excellent reports much like yourself who never had a problem. 
Others????????? AAAAACCCCKKKKK! Disaster after disaster! Returned for 
repair, arrive back from Leica Canada and out of the box a wreck again!  A 
friend of ours had 4 or 5 R3 bodies exchanged before she got two that seemed 
to work on a regular basis.

I think they were in a change over time of manufacturing that created many 
of the problems. Equally so, some of it carried over into the R4's. I had 
one of those that was back and forth across Canada like a yo-yo between my 
office in Victoria on the west coast and LEICA Canada. in Toronto! There 
were two times it arrived back and right out of the box it never worked 
properly.

The last time it turned out I was going to Toronto the next week on 
assignment. So I called and gave them an ultimaintum... "A replacement new 
camera or I would smash this one into smithereens in front of the national 
media on their office front steps.  They thought I was kidding.

Nope it was a useless camera, so what the hell was the difference? I might 
as well smash it to pieces for publicity maybe receiving a new properly 
working camera body. I arrived in Toronto, the LEICA executives offered me a 
free lunch while the "technical staff" looked at the crappy body. I again 
explained unless they gave me a new body I would smash this one to pieces in 
front of TV cameras and still's photogs from the national wire services.... 
"THEY THOUGHT I WAS JOKING!"

SURPRISE!! :-) When we arrived back from lunch, sure enough there were the 
local Toronto news photographers, a reporter, a couple of wire service 
shooters and reporters, along with several TV network camera crews.

"Hey Ted when you going to do this smashing thing?" I explained the 
situation, new or smash! Meanwhile some of the LEICA people stood by, others 
went inside. After a few minutes of waiting the senior guy came out with a 
new camera in box with a great explanation that "LEICA, we look after our 
customers very well when any difficulties arise." And with that he handed me 
the new camera..
Obviously the news crews were ticked off as they wanted a smashing good 
scene of violently destroying a multi thousand dollar world famous camera to 
little pieces. It didn't happen and they all left bitching about wasted 
time. Me?

I smiled and left with my newly replaced R4 camera! :-) And yes it worked 
like a dream as all LEICA's do. MOST OF THE TIME!" ;-)

cheers,
Dr. ted  ;-)