Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder rangefinder patch flare CONTROL ??
From: "steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:43:00 -0500

B.D.
Yessireee! "...really quite bizarre..." Not one of my 5 Nikons has ever
given the slightest hint of trouble and I have 0 complaints with them. On
the other hand my 2 M2's have been ALMOST trouble free and, yes, I love them
all, Nikon's and Leicas.
Steve
Annapolis

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>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder rangefinder patch flare CONTROL ??
>Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2000, 8:59 AM
>

> I've got to weigh in on Stephen's side on this one....Yes, it's helpful for
> LUGers who have found Rube Goldberg fixes for the problem to share those
> fixes...But the bottom line is the question of why we are willing to put up
> with Scotch tape and Magic Marker fixes of a quite basic defect in a $2000
> camera BODY? People on this list worry about every tiny nick and scratch
> their Leica's pick up. They leave the plastic stickem piece on the base
> plate. Some treat their cameras with more care than I'd bet they treat their
> children - and yet we blithely discuss ways to place little dots of paper on
> the view finder window to make it possible to USE the rangefinder. There is
> something really quite bizarre about this.
>
> And what can we do?
>
> What might happen if every single LUGer who has a viewfinder problem wrote
> to Leica complaining and demanding a fix?
>
> B. D.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Paul
> Chefurka
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:30 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder rangefinder patch flare CONTROL
> ??
>
>
> I don't think anyone feels it's "OK" do have to do stuff like this.  But
> what alternative do we have?  Wait for Leica to retrofit all our cameras
> with a fix they have as much as said will not be forthcoming?  Rather than
> just bitch about the problem to no avail, we're trying to solve it
> ourselves.  Such grass-roots efforts don't seem all that wrong-headed to me.
>
> I'm interested in what approach you'd recommend.  You seem to imply that
> there are other ways to deal with the problem.
>
> Paul Chefurka
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Stephen Gandy [mailto:leicanikon@earthlink.net]
>>Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:55 AM
>>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder rangefinder patch flare CONTROL
>>??
>>
>>
>>Does anyone else besides me think this particular thread is
>>going the wrong way
>>?
>>
>>My god people, you buy a $2,000 M6 camera body and then
>>believe it's OK to use
>>tape or a rubber band to get it to work right ??
>>
>>the only thing being controlled is the customer's low level of
>>expectations
>>
>>Stephen Gandy
>>
>>
>