Re: [Leica] Back to the drawing----

[Ben Ho ^_^ <longjohn@netvigator.com>]

Hello Alastair,

Feel really sorry for your bad luck!

I have a similiar experience when I first got my new R8.  It went on strike
within the 1st week.  (Kind of dumb, it took me quite a while to realize it was
indeed dead.  I thought I must have made some wrong setting...)  Took it back
to Leica to fix and it has been working nicely from then on.

I love the handling of R8, but after my first experience and hearing bad luck
from other luggers here, I have developed a habit of taking my small R4 with me
just in case.

Using a R8 to me is like marrying a very much more beautiful wife than I
deserve.  Love it but with much insecurity.  As time goes by, hope this "fear"
will go away.

Regards.  ^_^



Alastair Firkin wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> So it is now the 11th of January, and my R8 is due to fly out to Germany
> today. On Friday, a borrower arrived from Adeal here in Melbourne. The
> batteries were dead, so I bought some new ones, 6 rolls of film, fitted the
> 70-180, monopod and headed off on Sunday for the Lavender festival,
> determined to test out my "skills" with the telephoto zoom lens. It was
> hot, sunny crowded and a  lot of fun. The lavender was in full bloom and
> its perfume filled the air. Childred played, there were buskers, people
> dancing, May poles, stalls Llama rides, lavender products and lavender
> harvesting. Hats, summer finery, smiling faces, hot sun and a cooling
> breeze, beautiful shady trees and open fields of purple - what a day for a
> daydream, but the camera "froze" after 2 shots never to rise again, and I
> spent a hot day "Lugging" the 4kgs of dead electronics around.
>
> Just to "rub-it-in", I meet an M6 user busy snapping away, whose only
> comment was - Leica should have left electronics to the Japanese!!!! I'm
> beginning to believe him :-(
>
> Oh well, back to ------
>
> Alastair Firkin,
>
> http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html