Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:30 PM 8/14/01 -0700, Herbert & Lee Kanner wrote: >When I was buying a correction lens at Keeble and Shuchat (a mistake, >I might add. They charged me $99. The B & H price, I discovered too >late, is $72.), I simply looked at the distant scene through my >glasses and rapidly switched between my glasses and the correction >lens to see if the eye accommodation seemed to be the same. The >clerk objected, saying that the lens had to be screwed into the >camera. He was so insistent that I had to shut him up by telling him >that I'm a physicist and know a wee bit about optics. > >Change of subject: The same clerk made me exchange two 3 volt >lithium batteris for four 1.5 volt silver oxide batteries. They were >intended for the M6 and a Nikon FE2. This guy insisted that the Li >batteries were wrong for both cameras. I subsequently phoned Leica >and was told that the Li was preferred because of long shelf life. I >then phoned Nikon and was told that they were both ok, totally >interchangeable. So much for the wise guys at K & S. Whoa, Herb! You waste these folks time long enough to gripe and complain and stammer angrily that you ARE a physicist, and then moan because B&H charges you $27 less for a precision item? Think again, brother. B&H doesn't GIVE advice: they take orders. You pay more by buying at your local store, but you also enjoy the pleasure you undoubtedly felt at both reminding them that you ARE a physicist, and the even greater <and secret> pleasure of BEING RIGHT on the battery point. Heavens, man. Spare Keeble & Shuchat your custom and go straight to B&H. I'd love to read the transcripts of your telephone calls there when you start your whinging ways! Hint: that "click" is them hanging up. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!