Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Golden Touch Goddess Ms. Sherry K. suggests that one not purchase an M5 with a serial number lower than 250,000. (I think that was the number.) They had a faulty roller something or other that is not reliable and a somewhat costly fix. Mayhaps the two that you got were earlier than that? My shutter has been flawless since getting mine in Waltham this last spring. The RF spot is 'speckley' and needs replacing eventually, but the shutter has been fine. The spot is easy enough to focus, it's just not 'perfect' like I want it so I will take the opportunity to put in an M4-P finder. (knocking on any oak that I can find) Carpe Lumen, Michael E. Berube At 05:18 PM 7/13/00 -0500, you wrote: >Recently (March) I purchased an M5. While checking it out for the first >time, I fired off a few frames. Within 3 or 4 shots, the shutter jammed. I >had never seen this kind of thing happen before. (I used to work at a >camera store where I got to play with every camera imaginable, and I have >owned perhaps 40 cameras over the years, of all brands.) Two weeks later, >I bought a second M5, and the exact same thing happened! > >I was absolutely dumbfounded that after 25 years of fiddling with cameras >this could happen two times in a row. > >BTW, I have never, ever sent a camera of any brand (N, C, O, L, K, etc.) >to a repair depot in my life...until this happened. I have a 1978 Nikon F2 >that has had the same battery for the past 15 years, and the meter is >still dead on, and everything else works perfectly. Never been CLAd. > >The M5s were just dumb luck, no other way to explain it. > >-R