Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/05

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Subject: RE: Some Perspective...was .Re: [Leica] M6 viewfinder upgrade
From: "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 07:42:22 -0400

bdcolen wrote:
..
"I now depend upon my M6s and M6TTLs to earn part of my living.
They are my TOOLS. I have NO emotional investment in them or in Leica as
a company. I think the glass is terrific, and I like using rangefinders.
However - I find that the flare problem occasionally costs me images.
And that is GD inexcusable in a $2000-just-for-the-body camera. It is
particularly inexcusable to have Leica turn around and finally, after
what, 20 years, find a fix for the problem that they created - as the
problem doesn't exist in the M2s and M3s, and charge as much to fix it
as one might pay for a user M2 or M3 - or for that matter an M4-2 or
M4p."

Right On, Brother B.D. Not to mention that for years Leica stonewalled, even Erwin P.
denied the source of the problem (despite what independent techs --- as reported by
Gandy and others) correctly identified as the culprit. And contrary to what Ted says
about our whining being worthless, I'll bet that the comments made here and elsewhere
in public fora indeed inspired Solms to finally tackle the problem in the new MP. And
tout the fixed problem in the PR literature for the new model. I think the company
DOES listen to its customers, now more than ever.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreal
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