Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:49 PM 7/26/01 +0200, Louis Reynolds wrote: >Marc wrote > >... I've had two M4's whose RF's gave up the ghost ... > >What went wrong, and could you have them fixed? I recently >bought a beautiful M4, and have noticed that, when shifting >focus from far to near, the rangefinder image occasionally hangs >back for a moment, then "pops" into place. This is temporarily >cured by repeated movements through the range. It's as if it >needs 'warming up'. In both cases, the prisms suffered from separation, and I had to get a DX unit from Leica. This took about four months in one case, two months in the other -- I believe they do these in batches. No big problem, as I had other bodies to use. I believe these cost about $500 or so. It was a decade back. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!