Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/02

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Subject: M6 problem "survey"
From: Eric Meyer <74415.1305@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 02 Sep 97 13:48:49 EDT

To:  >INTERNET:Leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

Statements like these have been circulating:

  >> ...the frame counters of 75% of M6s are breaking in the first 5
  >> years of ownership...

  >> In short, if you buy a later M6 like the ones made in 1995-1996,
  >> you have a 50% chance of getting a problematic M6...

They are utterly unjustified.  Twenty-six cameras (out of how
many made by Leica?) over eleven years of production, or six cameras
over two years, do not constitute a statistically significant
sample.  No conclusions about overall failure rates of Leicas can
reliably be drawn from so small a basis.  Please stop trying.  If
you want to make claims based on statistics, get meaningful ones --
survey thousands of owners, or try to get the facts on repair rates
from Leica service.

              -- Eric Meyer.