Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Three times a charm!! Canon 1Ds
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:01:30 -0700

on 9/19/02 11:36 PM, Rob Appleby at rob@robertappleby.com wrote:

> an electronic M body with a genuinely modern matrix meter and exposure modes,
> they'd probably do better.
<SNIP>
> The other thing they could do is provide some decent service, so you don't
> have to look up some wizened old man in a backstreet somewhere to fix your
> camera when it breaks.

You'd get your wish if the camera is much more electronic.  The "wizened old
man" wouldn't touch it.  One of the esteemed independant repair technicians
in the USA no longer services Leica R and another would rather not repair R
bodies, while both gladly repair Leicaflexes.
 
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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