Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] RD 1 QC issues
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jul 27 10:48:33 2005

Howard - I don't doubt that the Epson people were very courteous; I don't
believe for a nanosecond that they were "as puzzled as (you were) about the
lack of quality control in the production of the RD1." :-)

B. D.


On 7/27/05 12:58 PM, "cummer@netvigator.com" <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote:

> Dear Luggers,
> To weigh in on the Richard / Nathan discussion, I am on my third RD 1. My
> first one had rangefinder problems that simply defied the laws of optics, 
> the
> second one had clumps of dead pixels which, when extinquished by Epson, 
> left
> "holes" in the CCD pattern. After returning the second body Epson offered 
> me a
> full refund, but I wanted a digital rangefinder body to use with my M 
> lenses
> so I asked for body #3. They brought two new bodies from the warehouse for 
> me
> to check and I chose the one with a small vertical rangefinder fault 
> because I
> knew how easy it was to fix that. Having adjusted the rangefinder (hot shoe
> cover off - hot shoe off - tall screw on the right) I am quite happy with 
> my
> RD 1 and have shot several thousand pictures with a wide variety of Leica
> glass.My RD 1 will tide me over until Leica or Zeiss or Konica / Minolta
> produces a better digital rangefinder camera to take M lenses and I do 
> enjoy
> the process of making (and immediately seeing) digital photos with M l!
>  enses. I would conclude by saying that the Epson people I dealt with were
> very courteous and understanding and as puzzled as I was about the lack of
> quality control in the production of the RD 1.
> Cheers
> Howard
> (not in Hong Kong but travelling in Canada (with the RD 1)
> 
> 
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