Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 10:31:52 -0400
References: <CANYyKx-cREVkavUuZ=eJ=yRr0TAq4hZYZOGDi34griv-d+2LVg@mail.gmail.com> <1220c465c0e14cadaa9584c0bdd820ed@WhizzEXM01.whizz.org> <CC0A2B7D-4ED9-4261-ADC0-3021F9594BE6@gmail.com> <A6E296D6-6121-4EB3-833D-2EEA758FF9D9@gmail.com>

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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Tina Manley
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Replies: Reply from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......)
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......)