Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, it was back to the dealer for my 10x25 Trinovids today. There was a curly-shaped shaving of unknown composition rattling around just behind the front element of one of the lenses. Also, there was something that looked like fungus on around 1/3 of the inside of the front element of the other. The dealer, Glazers in Seattle, promptly exchanged them. With Leica equipment, a good dealer is getting to be a must. I can't help but thinking about the discussion we were having about Land Rovers & Leicas a few months ago. Same story there too. Great product, proven desgn, spotty quality control, outstanding dealers sorting out the factory defects for the customer. So that's 1 M6HM and 1 pair of Trinovids this year. I HAVE YET to receive a defective-out-of-the-box product from Nikon, Canon, Minolta, or Contax in almost 20 years of experience I've had with those brands! What are we to think? Again, I have to plug my excellent dealer. I just can't believe the defect rate I'm seeing. Seems Leicas are like that old English roadster or the crazy girlfriend you had back in college -- when things are good, they're very, very good. When things are bad, they're very, very bad. Maybe that's better than the incessant pain of mediocrity, though. ;-) Jim Laurel Microsoft Digital Television jplaurel@microsoft.com (425) 703-1143 http://www.microsoft.com/dtv