Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well - I do believe that Leica (or any other camera manufacturer) will never make their problem statistics public - so to urge someone provide them is futile. What could be done is some kind of survey among users of different cameras - and this is what Color Foto (G) magazine did many years ago among its readers - so it is a bit biased but AFAIK it is the only one. I think I still have the issue somewhere. But if one user tells honestly about his/her experiences, there should be no grounds for litigation. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 19. toukokuuta 2001 1:15 Aihe: RE: [Leica] Re: quality control >At 05:02 PM 5/18/2001 -0500, Tom.Henson@bakerbotts.com wrote: >>I have to agree with Seth. While it is indeed true that today's technology >>makes reporting these problems to a very wide audience almost instantaneous, >>my experience with Leica Solms has not been the best. > >But, Tom, your evidence does NOT support Seth. Seth stated, rather baldly, >that Leica, today, has QC problems which Leitz did not experience. Your >evidence points only to the present, not to the past. > >The burden is still on Seth to show us some hard figures -- not anecdotes! >-- from the '20's, and '30's, and so forth. The humorous part of this is >that Erwin, whom some ill-spirited souls have driven from the LUG, could >have enlightened us more than a bit on this, as he DOES have some >information on the record for QC at Leica in the earlier years. > >But, then, we can live in a universe of superstition, myth, and calumny if >we wish. I choose not to, and I must admit that every new purchase I have >made from Leica since 1986 has been perfect with one exception, and that >was IMMEDIATELY cured, to my complete satisfaction. But, my experience >counts no more than does yours, Tom, or anyone else's: what counts is the >overall statistics, and I suspect this will only come out in that huge >defamation lawsuit ... > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >