Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/02
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Statements like these have been circulating:
>> ...the frame counters of 75% of M6s are breaking in the first 5
>> years of ownership...
>> In short, if you buy a later M6 like the ones made in 1995-1996,
>> you have a 50% chance of getting a problematic M6...
They are utterly unjustified. Twenty-six cameras (out of how
many made by Leica?) over eleven years of production, or six cameras
over two years, do not constitute a statistically significant
sample. No conclusions about overall failure rates of Leicas can
reliably be drawn from so small a basis. Please stop trying. If
you want to make claims based on statistics, get meaningful ones --
survey thousands of owners, or try to get the facts on repair rates
from Leica service.
-- Eric Meyer.