Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Simon, Where is your paradise? Sounds like beautiful... By the way, I'm french... Thib. PS : Good luck with the F..ing M6 electrics...It's a chance we have the old M2's... At 10:34 09/06/1999 +0100, you wrote: >With impeccable timing my less than one year old M6HM has chosen the moment >we arrive in Provence in the south of France on holiday to go all >temperamental and unreliable. The electrics are working intermittently - >sometimes the LEDs light when the shutter release is touched, sometimes they >don't. And when they do light, they sometimes stay on for the usual period, >and sometimes for only a couple of seconds. I've changed the batteries, so >that's not the problem. > >I imagine that this is a well-known M6 problem - can anybody enlighten me? >I'm sure the only answer is a trip to Leica when I'm back in London, but >just in case - does anybody know of a simple do it yourself solution to this >glitch? > >It's not the end of the world because I've got an M2 with me as well and am >hand-held metering anyway. I'm just interested to know why my German >high-precision instrument has decided to go all hot-headed and unreliable. > >Otherwise, it's just another day in paradise down here, in a villa we found >for rent at the last moment and at a knockdown price. Though clean and well >tended it has the feeling that nobody has been here since it's heyday in the >early 1970's, when it must have been the last word in glamour. It's a huge >place, with the most extravagant 1970's decor - you half-expect to find Abba >having a party round the next corner, or for Tony Curtis and Roger Moore to >come crunching up the gravel driveway for an episode of the Persuaders. > >So the dodgy M6 is nothing to cry over - I'd just be interested to know what >the story is. > >