Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Ben wrote: > ><<What are you folks doing to your M6s? Mine has never had a problem, and >I whip >it as hard as any camera I have owned.>>>>> > >g'evening Ben,. > >I'm with you! I was just about to say the same thing. We all know glitches >happen in the bst of equipment, but I've had my M6's since they first came out >and hammered the daylights out of them for about 12 years and they have served >me well. Hell they've never been serviced for anything, cleaning or >otherwise. > >It might be that there are a few with a camera having a problem and it is just >"one of those things", but by the sound of the wailing out there it looks like >eveybodies M6 is falling apart right in there hands! And I don't beleive the >numbers of wrecks that appear to be happing are as big as it is being made to >sound. > >Or some folks are really using their cameras for hammers! And that's a big >difference to hammering with hundreds and hundreds of exposures. :) > >Folks if it is as bad as it appears for servicing and breakdowns, may I suggest >that you all write to Leica in Germany for one and to Mr. Roger Horn of Leica >Camera in New Jersey. And send hard copies by snail mail as something in your >hand and in your face is far more impressive than a bunch of e-mails that you >can get rid of with just a plink of a key. > >Beating yourselves to pieces in the LUG is a good thing for venting your >spleen, >but it doesn't put the complaints on the desk of the head guys of Leica. > >ted I"ve pretty hard on mine I guess. I expected the film counter to count exposures and reset to the proper place when I reloaded. Perhaps I'm expecting too much from a camera for which I paid $2500. kw :( - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org>