Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Peeved at choice of material - M5 flash shoe
From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 12:09:28 -0400

Sorry, Vick, the 6-year statute of limitations for complaints about material
choice on the M5 is long over.  This is an annoying problem with hot shoe
cameras.  More annoying is when a hot shoe flash leaves a scratch on a cold
flash shoe!

on 10/7/01 10:34 AM, Vick Ko at vick.ko@sympatico.ca wrote:

> I wanted some pictures of my son yesterday, and it was a dark and
> miserable day.
> So I decided to pull out a flash, and put it into my M5.  When I took
> the flash off,
> there was a nice groove, engraved into the plastic bit and the metal
> stud on the
> flash hot shoe.
> 
> I was so annoyed that Leitz would have chosen such soft material for
> this
> potentially high wear area.
> 
> Maybe it's their way to assure that the camera gains a "wear mark" -
> kind of like
> ripping the seal off of disks for software.  You used it, you own it.
> 
> ....end of vent... please return to normal programming.
> 
> Vick
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com> (Re: [Leica] Peeved at choice of material - M5 flash shoe)