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Subject: [Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 07:36:03 -0700
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Yes, I know this Tina, but it takes far too long. You misunderstand, when 
Leica gives the service to all that they give to you they will have grown up.


Steve



> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:31 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This offer is available to anybody with a bad sensor.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:10 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have been using Leicas for 40 years and have regretted every excursion
>> into other systems.  I sent my film cameras in for CLA after every trip 
>> and
>> never had problems with them. I sent my M9 in after I dropped it on a
>> marble floor and knocked it out of alignment. They discovered that the
>> sensor was bad and offered to replace it for free or give me the same
>> amount off on the new Monochrome.
>> 
>> When they decide to give this service to all, they will have grown up.
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I got the MM and haven't regretted it. I've been speaking to college
>> photo classes lately and most of them have never heard of Leica!
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 9:36 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have no idea why people compare simple mechanical cameras which do
>> not require batteries (I have M2, Nikon F2 (plain prism) and 500C/M) with
>> digital cameras. I used Fuji X-T1 and the results, for me, were nowhere
>> close to what I get with Leica.
>>>> 
>>>> john
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> ......In the last 12 months, three sensors (M9, original Monochrom and
>>>> S2-P, plus currently on my third S AF failure), all carried out >free
>> including shipping.....
>>>> 
>>>> ============================================================
>> =======================================
>>>> 
>>>> Wow(?).   I used my (second-hand) M3 every day for 40 years, personally
>> and
>>>> at work, and it is still going strong.  I'd still use it if I had a
>> darkroom.
>>>> 
>>>> Loved my film Leicas, but I'm glad I saved a lot of money (and grief)
>> by buying a Fuji body for all my diverse lenses.  No problems in three
>> years.
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> Alan
>>>> 
>>>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of
>> Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
>>>> (Retired)
>>>> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
>>>> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
>>>> amr3 at uwm.edu
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>>>> 
>>>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate  for an inability to
>> notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)
Message from john at mcmaster.fr (John McMaster) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)
Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)