Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] M7 repair advice sought
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:53:06 -0800
References: <616060.13077.qm@web26702.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <B2231769-A806-4469-9FE6-1B3359759C2E@frozenlight.eu>

You can definitely buy an M6 for that...

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> I would definitely try on the repairers outside Japan. 100.000 Yen sounds
> outrageously expensive. You could almost buy another M6 or M7 for that.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:22 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote:
>
> > Leica Japan quoted me over 100,000 yen to repair my M7.  Wow. They said
> the LED is inaccurate (I never found that to be so, but things happen), and
> the shutter speeds are wrong.  That is why I sent it in to them, I wish 
> they
> told me their diagnosis of why the shutter speeds are wrong.
> >
> > Basically it was working fine a week before I noticed the problem.  2
> perfectly exposed rolls of Velvia showed there was no problem.  Then a week
> later I picked up the M7, dry fired it, and noticed the speeds were off.
>  Two weeks after the camera store's 6 month warranty expired.  I only 
> bought
> this camera in June 2010, and really don't want to pay such a big repair
> bill on it already.
> >
> > Now I have this hefty repair quote.  I'm thinking maybe it would be
> cheaper to send to Sherry Krauter, or DAG.  Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Peter Cheyne
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In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] M7 repair advice sought)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] M7 repair advice sought)