Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/14

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Subject: [Leica] M8 on the way back to NJ
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Mon May 14 19:09:37 2007
References: <000601c79688$4aad52a0$12340b44@GATEWAY>

With those we have another problem, the springs. A Rollei can go  
through several generations of revisions on the springs alone.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On May 14, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> I truly appreciate my M4 and Rolleiflex 3.5E now. Not a wire in them.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of  
> Slobodan
> Dimitrov
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:12 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 on the way back to NJ
>
>
> This is reminiscent of the problems Rollei had when they first went
> 'electronic'!
> Some dealers told me they almost went bankrupt trying to cover the
> problems, and calm the tempers of customers.
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov
>
>
>
>
> On May 14, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
>> Well, the error-prone M8 is on its way back to NJ. The president
>> (Horn) said
>> that they would send me a new one. Over the past few weeks, I have
>> been
>> scouring the web for possible fixes. I found one poor fellow whose M8
>> shutter appeared to be tearing vertically, from bottom to top(!).
>>
>> Glad that I don't need to wait for something to return from Solms.
>>
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
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