Re: Was: What's Leica supposed to send me?

["Chen Weijann" <adisoon@pl.jaring.my>]

Hi, 

just wanted to note that something Tinawrote struck a certain chord with
my. My titanium M6, made in 1993, does not reset the frame counter when the
base plate is removed. I wondered why this was so,because I bought it new,
and the manual said that the frame counter would automatically reset. To
overcome the problem, I have to reach in to a little hook at the base of
the camera and pull it. that done, the frame counter automatically resets.
I thought that perhaps this was an unreliable part of the M6, and a
situation that other M6owners live with. It has become so much of a routine
when changing film that I forgot to realise it's abnormailty. It was only
when after this, when I got a 1987 M6 that I realised there were M6's
around that never heard of such a thing!

- --adi


> 
> Ben: I never had a problem with my first M6, but I bought one in June so
I
> could use one body for color and one for black and white.  The new one
first
> had problems with the counter.  It didn't reset when I loaded film. 
That's
> no big problem and I could live with it, but then the winder broke
> completely off!  I wasn't doing anything unusual.  I'll admit I change
film
> very fast at times (can't miss that decisive moment) but that certainly
> shouldn't break the winder off!  I had to carry that useless body around
all
> over Honduras - luckily I had back-up M4's and 3's that I can depend on!
> The M6 goes back to Leica next week.  By the way, they have been very
good
> about repairing things in a hurry for me - one week turn around - or
sending
> a lender if it's going to take awhile.  I have no problems with the
service,
> just the quality of the new M6.  Tina
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> Tina Manley, ASMP
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