Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:15 PM 29-09-97 -0400, you wrote: >Roger Beamon posted this quote from a newsgroup member: > ><<<<Lecias are fun for amatuer use, but should never be relied on when it >comes to paycheck photography.>>>>>>> > >The above was a quotation from one William Fisher!>>>>>>>> > >Roger, > >A considerable statement by this wildy inexperienced chap if I ever saw [snip] I have a few points to make here. First, this guy (Mr. Fisher) never posted his comments to the LUG, only to one of the news groups. I don't think it is fair that he get raked over the coals in a forum wihout his knowledge. Second, one of the reasons I enjoy reading the LUG, and usually avoid the rec.photo.* news groups, is that I hate putting up with all the crap that goes on within them. The last thing we need is to have someone start forwarding that stuff to the LUG. It would be as if a ham radio operator put his trasmitter microphone up to a CB radio speaker, and transmitted everything he heard there. (hope there aren't any CBers here! ;-)) Finally, Mr. Fisher did make one valid point, though I think he greatly over exagerated it. It is that there IS a problem with the rangefinder easily going out of wack in the M6 (at least it has in mine, and I hear others on the LUG complaining about it). I am always fearfull when driving along a bump road with my M6 that the alignment will be thrown off. It has happened too many times, both vertical AND distance. Easy to fix, but a nuisance nontheless. Didn't someone recently post a letter from Solms where Leica actually ADMITTED that they have not been able to solve this problem of the rangefinder? This after 40 years of M manufacturing, and decades more in general rangefinder construction for their screw mount cameras? I don't make a living from my M6, and I tend to baby it a bit, but if my job depended on it, I would think twice before commiting to it as the main tool of my trade, just based on the (past) problems I have had with mine. Right now, the camera is operating perfectly (touch wood), and is a joy to use, but one bump against something and then who knows? Dan C.