Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>On 24/07/1997, Oddmund wrote: > >In France too, and it's a shame! I sold my last M6 when I had to pay $320 >for a new bottom plate (cover)... I was fed up with this decadence for >quite a while. Then someone gave me a M4. Now I am toting around with this >one and a couple of old lenses (with metal lens hoods). I hope this outfit >will last for some time. If I feel that I am being plucked again, just >because it is *Leica*, I don't know what I will do... > >I like the Leica M as well, but I am not religious about it. It is very >good for what it is, a 35mm camera. Pretending that it may compete with MF >and LF, as I have seen in some messages here, is carrying things too far, I >think. > >My Contax cameras are also rather expensive, but they have been developed >quite recently, and Kyocera needs to amortize them. Leica Camera are >squeezing the juice out of a 50 years old lemon, riding upon a legend. >Collectors are maintaining this system, and hundreds of Leica cameras are >dying in show-cases. Thus a lot of young, talented photographers cannot >access the Leica Karma. What a waste... > Hi Oddmund, I totaly agree with you. When I travel around the world taking my M6 with me, I allways cover the red Leica point with black tape. After doing this nobody ever ask to talk about my camera. When I walk around showing the red point I get in contact to several people a day. The dialog typicaly starts with "ohh what a expensive camera" and as I wrote before: here is the main reason for most of the Leica owner. I went through several cameras over the years (Nikon, Leica, Linhof, Rollei, Yashica, Plaubel...). After getting the first M6 I stop searching - I found what I allways looked for. But using the camera and not putting it to a showcase could get a very expensive task. My M6 went for three times to repair. Allways the same problem: the shutter does not close completly at low speeds. Now the M6 has the same problem again and I have to bring it to repair again. Everytime I have to pay "Leica" repair prices and I have to wait for some weeks to get the camera back. My bottom plate is scratched from the use of the camera - if I would have to replace this little metal plate for =A7320 I would get a little bit angry... Cheers, Detlef <WORLD'S SHORTEST SIGNATURE>