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

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Ted,

Great story.  It sounds like it was one of those things that worked 
great "on occasion" that we have all bought at one time or the other.  
One Christmas I bought my wife a Jaguar XJ-6, one of the last ones with 
Lucas electrical.  The kid down the street with a VW beetle said he 
would race us - five times to the grocery store and back in a row.  Once 
when it broke down I told the tow truck guy I wanted a flatbed since we 
had a Jag.  He broke up and when he could talk again said they had lots 
of experience with those...

Ken

On 12/19/2010 6:50 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> 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  ;-)
>
>
>
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