Re: [Leica] Gandy vs. Puts

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 03:44 PM 1/18/2000 -0800, Stephen Gandy wrote:
>1) went through more than its share of film counter problems several years
>ago when Leica changed to plastic components to save costs
>2) why there are so many reports of unusually high M6 TTL battery consumption
>on the LUG
>3) why all the best repair people that I have talked to, who don't want to be
>named because they don't want to piss Leica off, are unanimous in the M6
>being a less well made camera.
>4) why the M6 's RF/VF has a flare problem which has been a topic of
>conversation for years on the LUG -- just check the archives.  It's cause is
>a change in the M rangefinder/viewfinder during the M4-2 run to lower
>production costs (parts were taken out)  -- and this was confirmed by the
>head of Repair at Solms
>
>The gibberish is yours Mark.  Not that you can't be a fine source of
>information, but you stubbornly refuse to see the obvious when you don't want
>to, and become abusive to those who do.   On the other hand, maybe you really
>can't tell the difference.
>
>I didn't say the M6 is not an excellent camera, it is. The problem is that it
>is not as well built, in functional or cosmetic terms, as the M4 and  earlier
>M's.   I like this string, it's a  LUG oldie that comes up at least once a
>year.

Please provide proof, Stephen.  Talk is cheap.  Names and telephone numbers
of those "best repair people" you cite, ad nauseam.

Marc

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