[Leica] NOW.... Bad M8 & near smashing! :-)

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)]

When my M9 dies and Leica won't fix it for significantly less than the
new cost, I'm going to figure out how to get a roll of Tri-X in there...

Phil Forrest



On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:08:11 -0700
<tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Larry Z offered:
> >>> Of course you can always follow Dr. Ted's strategy. Call a press 
> >>> conference.
> > Equip yourself with a sledge hammer. And threaten to pound your
> > offending Leica M8 into a pile of fragments while shouting "Leica
> > cameras are pieces of crap" if Leica doesn't immediately supply you
> > with a new model. It would be best if you did this on the steps of
> > Fox News while ranting about the evils of importing shoddy foreign
> > goods into the USA.<<<<<<
> 
> Frank Filippone RESPONDED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad M8
> 
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> > Interesting hypothesis.....
> >
> > So I get emotional satisfaction for a bad camera, at an expense of
> > several thousand dollars......
> >
> > If I remember correctly, when this happened to Dr. Ted, the
> > replaced camera
> > was also dead......  not a good precedent.
> >
> > Nah, I'll sell it on Ebay where they don't read this stuff.......
> >
> > Film for the weekend..... at least I know the images will be sharp.
> >
> > And with B+W film, I also know the colors will be right.....
> >
> > M6TTL, forever......Rah, Rah, Rah......
> 
> 
> AND Dr. Ted offered in response:
> 
> 1/ Leica gave me a new camera before it was necessary for me to smash
> the "crappy R4 they claimed 4 times it was fine and in perfect
> working order!" The breaking point was opening the supposed "perfect
> camera right out of the box exactly in the same identical problem!"
> KILL!!!!!!!! :-)
> 
> That was the final straw!!! So I called my buddies in the TV networks
> and newspapers and wire services offering I would smash the world's
> greatest camera to smithereens on the front steps of the Leica head
> office in Toronto at the time.
> 
> The management people when they saw the media mob waiting for the
> smashing immediately came up with a perfect brand new camera! I went
> happily on my way...... the media guys were all ticked off because
> nothing happened. :-) Leica people all gave a sigh of relief not
> having to see me smash the camera.
> 
> I've had folks ask me,  "Would you have really done it?" Absolutely
> and emphatically one answer.... YOU BET! INTO THE SMALLEST PIECES I
> COULD MAKE!" I had nothing to lose as that particular camera was as
> useless as a brick in a life jacket! Besides I had two other
> identical camera bodies that worked like a charm!
> 
> Frank said:
> >>So I get emotional satisfaction for a bad camera, at an expense of
> >>several thousand dollars......<<<<<
> 
> Frank the emotional satisfaction would have been absolutely ecstatic 
> regardless of dollars involved! I had become almost uncontrollable in
> my hatred for this particular camera and the complete staff of the
> Leica organization! Hell I was ready to kill anyone of them that came
> back to me with some BS story that it was OK, only to find it was
> just as bad as it was before and three times before that! :-(
> 
> And the new camera they gave me worked like a charm! No different
> than the other two bodies I had. They, all three were eventually
> traded in for R8's with motor drives!! Now that was an incredible
> LEICA product! :-) The best of the best! ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
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